ENTIRE CHAT LOG

*grin* and sweet dreams all -- will be back online tomorrow evening. ***Hugs and choclits***

*poof*

12:00 am

cybernan

how often do we see a bottom line like that!

12:00 am

cosdem

lol i know right

12:00 am

MLFAN17

hard to miss huh lol

12:01 am

dcseain

i missed it til pointed out :)

12:01 am

dart001

ro 6

12:01 am

jillibus

bfn stid!

12:01 am

dcseain

g'night stid

12:01 am

MLFAN17

SO6

12:01 am

cosdem

nooner should be a word!

12:02 am

MLFAN17

i thought it was too cos

12:02 am

flosey

tried it cos, and have before too!

12:03 am

dart001

lo 7

12:03 am

MLFAN17

ditto flosey

12:03 am

torgone

It's a word in my world ..

12:04 am

dart001

st 6

12:04 am

dart001

st 7

12:04 am

MLFAN17

thanks dar for the lo

12:04 am

dart001

sw 7

12:05 am

circe

er 7

12:05 am

MLFAN17

ST6

12:05 am

dart001

fu 6

12:05 am

MLFAN17

dar does the sw 7 have a 5 with it?

12:06 am

cybernan

ri 6

12:06 am

dcseain

seems to, mlf

12:06 am

cybernan

yes

12:07 am

MLFAN17

then it is the same as i have thanks

12:07 am

dart001

wo 6

12:08 am

cybernan

if 6

12:09 am

cosdem

ty for the if6

12:10 am

dcseain

aw, letter short for the genoise

12:10 am

dart001

ri 6/7

12:11 am

jillibus

nbt

12:11 am

MLFAN17

was Ri7 called?

12:11 am

dart001

nj jilli

12:11 am

cosdem

stats for bottom F 3rd column?

12:11 am

MLFAN17

hmm amybe its the one dar just called never mind

12:12 am

flosey

wtg jilli

12:12 am

dart001

scrool down 3 ml

12:12 am

jillibus

ty dart

12:12 am

dcseain

fi4.7

12:12 am

cosdem

how did i iss that

12:12 am

cosdem

thanks

12:12 am

MLFAN17

stats for the G please?

12:12 am

jillibus

nice icon, flosey!

12:12 am

cosdem

ge 4/7

12:13 am

torgone

Anyone call in8 yet?

12:13 am

flosey

thanks jilli, and yours too

12:13 am

jillibus

dc, I like your uncut hair :-)

12:13 am

dcseain

ty, jilli

12:14 am

dcseain

i'm lucky in terms of the waves/curls

12:14 am

metags

en6/7

12:14 am

cosdem

stats for 1st column i?

12:14 am

jillibus

our $2 coin is in the grid but doesn't count :-(

12:14 am

dart001

im 5 X 2

12:14 am

flosey

thanks metags

12:15 am

jillibus

I hope you keep it that way, dc

12:15 am

flosey

but extended, jilli, it does count

12:15 am

cosdem

nbt!

12:15 am

jillibus

wtg cos

12:16 am

cosdem

in8 and the other 8 is???

12:16 am

flosey

oops, not the 2, just the 1, jilli, sorry

12:17 am

cosdem

floo isnt a word? JK Rowling would be appalled.

12:17 am

dart001

un 6

12:17 am

cybernan

still looking for the g

12:17 am

jillibus

that's ok -- gave me one anyhow

12:18 am

flosey

me too nan, and there are 7 of them!

12:18 am

jillibus

nan, did you dream of Jeannie?

12:18 am

dart001

ir 6

12:18 am

cosdem

ty jilli nice clue

12:19 am

jillibus

:-)

12:19 am

dcseain

nicely subtle, jilli :)

12:19 am

MLFAN17

cyber i cant find the g either

12:19 am

cybernan

ty - nbt

12:19 am

jillibus

wtg nan

12:20 am

cosdem

cant find the in8 ugh

12:20 am

MLFAN17

oh got it too

12:21 am

MLFAN17

stats for the U please?

12:21 am

cybernan

un 6

12:21 am

rastapopolous

finally found a g

12:22 am

flosey

there's an un5 that seems strange to me

12:23 am

MLFAN17

i got a un6

12:24 am

cosdem

firier should be a word

12:25 am

dcseain

fire, fiery, fierier English is wack

12:25 am

scouser

wo 6 includes wo 4

12:25 am

scouser

morning all

12:25 am

cybernan

morning, scouser

12:26 am

MLFAN17

THIRD COLUMN 2ND N stats please?

12:26 am

scouser

hello cybernan.

12:26 am

cosdem

no 5/10

12:26 am

dcseain

no4 seaweed

12:26 am

jillibus

no4/8

12:26 am

jillibus

hi scouser

12:27 am

cosdem

ha the bottom row word doesnt even belong to that R

12:28 am

dcseain

nope. put the ri6 of it does

12:28 am

dart001

the ri 6 does

12:28 am

rururocks

sw7

12:28 am

cosdem

yep lol

12:28 am

cosdem

whatare the 8s? in and ??

12:29 am

rururocks

ri7 too

12:31 am

metags

lo7. Which I'm getting, as the night wears on.

12:31 am

cybernan

still don't see that in 8

12:31 am

MLFAN17

lol metags

12:32 am

dart001

when you find it you'll feel SUPerior

12:32 am

MLFAN17

I OGT IT

12:32 am

flosey

thanks dart

12:32 am

MLFAN17

GOT

12:32 am

jillibus

ty dart

12:32 am

scouser

gu6/27 new word for what Babblers do in desperation

12:33 am

MLFAN17

i need 3 more for nbt

12:33 am

dart001

yw

12:33 am

cosdem

hmmmmmmm

12:35 am

scouser

why cant we have plural abbreviated kanga-s?

12:35 am

dcseain

ENABLE hates us.

12:36 am

dcseain

ah, got the in8. ty, dart

12:36 am

dcseain

i kept looking for water-related word, since you listed a Great Lake :P

12:36 am

cybernan

can't see anything superior in there!

12:37 am

dcseain

quite so indeed, nan, think of what type of dictionary ENABLE is

12:38 am

cybernan

one that has imaginary and misspelled words?

12:38 am

dcseain

not the best in the least, yes

12:39 am

jillibus

absolutely, nan

12:39 am

mkg

cant get any u words.

12:39 am

dcseain

K, i use Gmail. Got email from ThinkGeek touting their I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords shirt. what ad appeared? -- make MSN your home page. LOL

12:40 am

dcseain

new clothes are un6

12:40 am

rururocks

they are un words mostly

12:40 am

flosey

thanks dc

12:41 am

dcseain

wow. greyed the lower left R

12:41 am

mkg

night all . ty for clues dc

12:42 am

dcseain

g'night mkg

12:42 am

flosey

night mkg

12:44 am

rastapopolous

they are un words entirely

12:44 am

rururocks

phantom : florist

12:45 am

flosey

finished the u words (or un words)

12:45 am

cybernan

still missing one un

12:45 am

scouser

phantom: worse

12:45 am

jillibus

good for you flosey

12:46 am

flosey

nan, could it be the un5/20?

12:46 am

flosey

thanks jilli

12:46 am

flosey

still 2 bts

12:47 am

cybernan

ty flosey

12:47 am

flosey

missing first column I and lower O in 4th column

12:47 am

flosey

yw nan

12:47 am

ARB

or 4 im 5

12:48 am

flosey

thanks arb, looking

12:48 am

flosey

got the o

12:49 am

dcseain

fo4e is a word -- it's a yummy bean dish

12:50 am

cybernan

giving up on that in 8 -- has the other 8 been called?

12:51 am

flosey

I don't have the other 8

12:51 am

dcseain

nor do i

12:52 am

jillibus

nan -- I hioe you don't get an in8ity complex about it

12:52 am

flosey

nan, hope you're not looking for something superior

12:52 am

jillibus

*I hope*

12:52 am

jillibus

oh, nbs, btw

12:52 am

cybernan

ty flosey -- the superior clue doesn't make sense, though

12:53 am

flosey

realized it had thrown you

12:53 am

jillibus

nan -- didn't you see MY clue, just before flosey's?

12:53 am

cybernan

I've been looking for something that meant superior

12:53 am

ARB

try opposite

12:53 am

dcseain

look the other way, nan

12:54 am

jillibus

well, did you get mine, then?

12:54 am

cybernan

sorry jill - it was your clue that I saw!

12:54 am

dart001

contrasting clue....when you get it you will feel SUPerior

12:54 am

cybernan

no -- just felt frustrated!

12:54 am

joshuavorbis

hi and nbt

12:54 am

cybernan

looking for a word with same def!

12:54 am

flosey

hi josh

12:56 am

jillibus

<--still wondering if my in8 clue worked for nan

12:56 am

jillibus

hi josh and wtg

12:56 am

flosey

yes jilli, nan acknowledged your clue

12:57 am

joshuavorbis

phant sniffler

12:57 am

jillibus

ok, ty flosey -- I thought she said she SAW it, not that she GOT it.

12:59 am

cybernan

it was your clue that gave it to me, jill - ty

1:00 am

jillibus

phew, nan, lol!

1:02 am

cybernan

110 down and quitting for the night -- so tired I can barel see the grid, let alone clues! a demain...

1:02 am

jillibus

gnight, nan -- sleep well

1:03 am

flosey

I'm off too, have to get up early to bake muffins to serve with coffee

1:03 am

rururocks

119 nan.. just a few more

1:03 am

rururocks

<---babble pusher

1:05 am

jillibus

flosey -- you are such a dedicated cook! I BUY muffins!

1:05 am

rururocks

uh flosey?

1:05 am

rururocks

that's what bakeries are for...

1:06 am

flosey

I love to bake - not necessarily at 8: am!

1:06 am

flosey

it's faster to bake them than to go to the bakery, ru

1:06 am

vanillaslice

how many words today plz

1:07 am

flosey

173

1:07 am

vanillaslice

ty I tried lickety but theyre yesterdays I think

1:08 am

jillibus

Maybe for you, flosey, but I'd have to look for a recipe, gather the ingredients, do the measuring, put them out on a baking sheet, clean up the mess, and wait for them to cook, then take them out to cool...but I bet yours are delicious

1:09 am

rururocks

night all.. I'm too tired to see anything else

1:09 am

dart001

sleep a looong time ruru

1:09 am

jillibus

ngood night and good luck and good weather, ruru

1:09 am

flosey

lol, all ingred. are pretty quick to put together jilli - and I can babble while waiting for them to bake

1:10 am

rururocks

forgeddaboutit dart. I'm done

1:10 am

jillibus

flosey, that's because you know what you're doing re ingredients and probably don't need to follow a recipe

1:10 am

joshuavorbis

phant unifier

1:11 am

flosey

I do follow one jilli but recipes are in binders on a shelf in kitchen

1:13 am

jillibus

I still maintain you're a dedicated cook/baker ;-)

1:13 am

flosey

3 more words and I'll be half way

1:13 am

flosey

2

1:14 am

jillibus

over halfway and not seeing any more tonight. Hope Lickety comes for tomorrow or again I'll never get this done.

1:14 am

gremlinn

6 left, I'll put up a list

1:14 am

flosey

just need 2 more then I can go to bed

1:14 am

VolleymomDee

late flip; hi all nbt

1:14 am

flosey

ah, that'll help me grem, thanks

1:14 am

dart001

hi volley

1:14 am

flosey

hi Dee

1:15 am

VolleymomDee

how is everyone?

1:15 am

dart001

12 left

1:15 am

flosey

sounds like everyone is tired Dee - me included

1:16 am

VolleymomDee

awww

1:16 am

joshuavorbis

42 left

1:16 am

flosey

just need 1 more for half way

1:16 am

jillibus

hi dee hi

1:16 am

jillibus

wd josh

1:16 am

VolleymomDee

hugs jili

1:18 am

jillibus

I've been so busy and I'm mad at myself for forgetting to go to a concert I really wanted to attend on Wednesday evening (the day of the AH luncheon, flosey)

lol ty dart... here but lurking a bit before :~)... trying to take a breath... tomorrow is going to be nutso...

1:23 am

jillibus

and I'm off to beddybyes -- goodnight all and ---- *poof*

1:23 am

dart001

nite jilli

1:23 am

VolleymomDee

nite jili

1:24 am

gremlinn

fireworks

1:24 am

VolleymomDee

wow wtg grem!

1:24 am

dart001

nj grem...down to 7 here

1:26 am

gremlinn

I posted a list

1:26 am

VolleymomDee

ty grem!!

1:26 am

VolleymomDee

greatly appreciated

1:27 am

gremlinn

yw... bedtime now

1:27 am

VolleymomDee

sleep well

1:33 am

gran

How many words today please

1:33 am

dart001

173

1:33 am

VolleymomDee

173

1:34 am

gran

Thanks

1:35 am

VolleymomDee

yw

1:35 am

MissOmnibus

Hey all

1:38 am

VolleymomDee

hi

1:39 am

vanillaslice

154 wds without stats panel and no lickety is not bad I suppose, but I will just have to go an pay, coz I'll never get to 173 this way

1:40 am

dart001

fireworks

1:40 am

vanillaslice

trouble is if I do pay I will feel so much more compelled to come here very day

1:41 am

VolleymomDee

wtg dart!

1:41 am

MissOmnibus

grats dart

1:41 am

ursh

hey vanilla - so what - its good for you

1:42 am

ursh

and hello all

1:42 am

dart001

thx hi omni ursh

1:42 am

vanillaslice

I'll have a pretty picture, but what about all the jobs I'll not be doing

1:42 am

VolleymomDee

help with the fi 7 please dart?

1:42 am

ursh

jobs can wait - tomorrow is always another day

1:43 am

vanillaslice

ursh you are corrupting me

1:43 am

ursh

well then thats a job well done for me today

1:43 am

dart001

fi something on a fish+what you walk on

1:44 am

VolleymomDee

wow what a word... have never seen that before ty very much

1:44 am

dart001

me either

1:45 am

VolleymomDee

definitely would not have pl'd it

1:45 am

ursh

oh yay tx for that volley - that gives me nbs

1:46 am

dart001

grems list helped there

1:46 am

VolleymomDee

yqw need to thank dart

1:46 am

VolleymomDee

how are you ribs?

1:46 am

dart001

about the same

1:47 am

VolleymomDee

I hate when it takes so long to heal... still can't get rid of this upper respiratory infection...

1:47 am

dart001

gonna sleep in the recliner tonight...don't sleep well...but better than flat on a bed

1:48 am

dart001

hate those infections...glad I don't have to cough much...too painful

1:49 am

dart001

nurse said to "hug a pillow hard when you cough"...helps a bit

1:49 am

VolleymomDee

I bet it would be a killer... sleeping in a bed killed by hubby too... he tried couch, then slept in bed with scads of pillows

1:50 am

VolleymomDee

same instructions after surgeries.. hold across area to help muscles from hurting

1:50 am

dart001

i'm a side sleeper...and flip a lot...have to sleep on my back in the bed...so the recliner is better

1:50 am

VolleymomDee

great idea... what is this doing to your move?

1:51 am

dart001

not even worrying about that yet..wife just got home from a raleigh nc bus. trip

1:52 am

VolleymomDee

that's good... stay away from stress and heal :~) How was her trip?

1:53 am

dart001

went well....saw her for a whole 10 mins when she got home...she was tired

1:53 am

VolleymomDee

I always crashed on travel days... especially if we flew

1:59 am

VolleymomDee

my last 26 are taking forever...

2:01 am

dart001

some strange ones there

2:04 am

dart001

some strange ones there

2:06 am

VolleymomDee

that's for sure

2:13 am

dart001

gonna hit the recliner :) nite all

2:13 am

VolleymomDee

sleep well; feel better soon

2:14 am

dart001

thx volley...pooof

3:10 am

frogface

goooooooooooooooood morning fellow babblers xxx

3:16 am

SaraY

And a good morning to you frogface - just back after dinner and don't know where to start with 117 to go (fancy admitting to such a disaster!) ...

3:16 am

frogface

well i started about 15 minutes ago and have got 35 words so far! did u have a pleasant dinner?

3:17 am

SaraY

One of my favourites as far as being the cook goes - left-overs!

3:18 am

frogface

always an easy option lol

3:19 am

SaraY

Well, we can't have them going off in the fridge can we? lol to you and cheers to left-overs.

3:23 am

frogface

sorry had to dash to the toilet!!! too much info i know but didnt want u thinking i was ignoring you xxx

3:24 am

SaraY

would never think that of you

3:25 am

frogface

am also having terrible connection probs here so i will reply at some point lol

3:26 am

SaraY

good luck with the connections and the grid

3:26 am

frogface

ty and u too xxx

3:45 am

rubyfoo

good morning everybody

3:46 am

cool.girl

hi everyone could you tell me how many words there are today please

3:46 am

SaraY

Hi ruby and 173 cool

3:47 am

cool.girl

ty

3:50 am

frogface

funny dictionary this one - we in the UK have a word - gurn - which means to distort the face for comic effect - and yet it's not in the dictionary on here! ho hum!!

3:51 am

Haz1558

It would accept girn, though, which means the same thing.

3:51 am

frogface

oooo didnt know that haz! ty for future info lol

3:52 am

Haz1558

My inclination would be to spell it gurn as well, but the dictionary thinks differently, unfortunately.

3:52 am

SaraY

I know what you mean - there are lots of Oz words that are not accepted (eg. rort, roos). I think for an international babble there should be more leeway for acceptable words.

3:53 am

frogface

oh well - im having enough trouble with this grid as it is! hour and half and still only got 56 words!!! and as for the G - well I cant see any of them!!

3:53 am

Haz1558

You just have to accept the limitations of any one dictionary and remember that it's a game, I think.

3:54 am

Haz1558

ge5/14 - like Aladdin's lampbound friend but double vowel at the end.

3:54 am

frogface

yay for haz!!!!!!

3:54 am

cosdem

i know theres an un8 but whats the other 8?

3:54 am

crystalle

thx haz

3:54 am

Haz1558

ge5/14 - like French for type or category of book, perhaps, but change the vowel at the end and then plural.

3:55 am

Haz1558

in8 and fi8 - being the plural of the fishy leg end.

3:55 am

rubyfoo

nice clues, haz, ty

3:55 am

frogface

double yay for haz!!! lol

3:55 am

cosdem

ty

3:55 am

Haz1558

gu6/27 - ends with French negative.

3:55 am

Haz1558

PHone..

3:56 am

crystalle

thx again haz

3:56 am

cosdem

clue for the un8?

3:56 am

frogface

not getting the fishy clues tho lol

3:56 am

frogface

unroot

3:57 am

frogface

omg sorry!!!

3:57 am

Haz1558

fi7 - combine a fish part with a human leg end part

3:57 am

Haz1558

in8 - shoddy, not up to standard. Note, IN8

3:58 am

frogface

oooo ty haz xxx

3:58 am

cosdem

ty for the in8 someone at flip said un8 so was lookin forever

3:58 am

Haz1558

You're welcome. By the way, gremlinn has a list on his profile (find him on rankings)

3:59 am

cosdem

finleger? lol

3:59 am

frogface

ok i gotta go now but will see u all lata

3:59 am

rubyfoo

that sounds right, cos!

3:59 am

Haz1558

That was an in8 call at flip if they said un8!

3:59 am

Haz1558

You've got the first part, now four letters for what finishes off your leg.

4:00 am

frogface

bye all!!!!! *poof*

4:00 am

Haz1558

Or fish part and add twelve inches.

4:00 am

cosdem

tyvm :)

4:00 am

cosdem

very twisty word

4:00 am

Haz1558

You're welcome. Bye frogface.

4:01 am

crystalle

gthanks for all the clues haz

4:01 am

cosdem

yay L's done

4:02 am

Haz1558

Glad to help, crystalle.

4:02 am

cosdem

ugh roofie should be a word

4:07 am

rubyfoo

break 'til after lunch

4:07 am

rubyfoo

bye crystalle and cos

4:07 am

cosdem

have fun ruby

4:08 am

rubyfoo

ty cos!

4:08 am

rubyfoo

almost at half

4:08 am

crystalle

bye ruby

4:08 am

rubyfoo

see you tomrrow crystalle

4:09 am

Haz1558

gu7 - the noise of conflict

4:09 am

rubyfoo

with recipes for leftovers -- cooks' friend

4:09 am

cosdem

another clue for gu7?

4:10 am

Haz1558

The sound of shooting?

4:10 am

Haz1558

It's a compound word.

4:10 am

cosdem

ok i know i have the first 3 letters right...

4:11 am

Haz1558

What do you do to make a weapon discharge?

4:11 am

crystalle

soething hot

4:11 am

crystalle

something

4:11 am

BabbleRabble

arsonist's delight

4:11 am

cosdem

oh duh

4:11 am

cosdem

thanks BR!

4:11 am

cosdem

and crystal and gaz

4:12 am

cosdem

haz

4:12 am

Haz1558

gaz, that's a new one! You're welcome.

4:18 am

cosdem

1 more then halfway done and i can go to bed

4:19 am

cosdem

halfway.. but not ready to go yet lol

4:19 am

Haz1558

Okay, how about fo6/27 - if it started with p, it could be deadly.

4:20 am

cosdem

tyvm :)

4:20 am

sprite

good morning all :)

4:21 am

Haz1558

You're welcome. Good morning, sprite.

4:22 am

crystalle

hi sprite

4:22 am

sprite

hi Haz and crystalle, how've you been?

4:23 am

Haz1558

or6/18 - Pretty Woman Roy prays to find his missing letter.

4:23 am

crystalle

great thx . How about you?

4:23 am

Haz1558

I'm fine, thanks, sprite.

4:23 am

sprite

am very well!

4:23 am

cosdem

ok when i fins that or6/18 im off

4:24 am

cosdem

found it - monkeyed ut

4:24 am

cosdem

it

4:24 am

Haz1558

Well done - and now sprite will have that song in her ear, but there are worse songs!

4:24 am

cosdem

awesome clue now that i get it :)

4:24 am

Ray100

very des res in Merthyr Tydfil in the grid...

4:25 am

sprite

...walking down the street... pretty woman...

4:25 am

Haz1558

He had the most glorious voice.

4:25 am

cosdem

bye all!

4:25 am

sprite

bye cosdem

4:25 am

Haz1558

Bye, cosdem.

4:25 am

crystalle

i love that song

4:26 am

Haz1558

You'll need to bring us up to speed with housing in Wales, Ray.

4:26 am

ivesy3

i like the way he sings crying..with kd lang

4:26 am

Ray100

The (in?)famous Gurnos estate

4:26 am

SaraY

Hi Haz, thanks for amazing clues. Just been on phone with daughter Jessica who had 2nd son Patrick on Wednesday. Sent home after 1 night to partner, 1st son, and 2 step-daughters with the message - if you go home today you will get 3 home visits from a midwife, if you stay for a 2nd night you get no home visits. Bit tough I think.

4:27 am

sprite

hi ivesy, hi SaraY

4:27 am

Haz1558

Sara, congratulations on your new grandson. I sympathise, my friend is/was a midwife and she despaired of having to send mothers home so early.

4:28 am

crystalle

congrats on the grandson sara

4:28 am

Haz1558

She felt it was like a conveyor belt and wasn't able to give the sort of support that would have been standard years ago. The bottom line is that they want you out of that hospital bed.

4:28 am

cosdem

ok 2 more.. i need 2 more Es in the bottom 5th column..

4:29 am

cosdem

what are the stats for them

4:29 am

Haz1558

The infamous Gurnos estate mustn't be infamous enough, Ray.

4:29 am

cosdem

i have the el5/16

4:29 am

sprite

congratulations on the grandson, Sara. I didn't get any help at home with my first child, because I had to stay in hospital for too long. Crazy rules!

4:29 am

Haz1558

er4/4 and er7/28

4:29 am

SaraY

Thankfully all is well and step-daughters old enough to be of help but the extra night's rest would have been invaluable. Hi crystalle and sprite.

4:30 am

cosdem

u sure about the er4/4 ?

4:30 am

Haz1558

No, you're right, cosdem, it comes from another tile.

4:30 am

cosdem

ok whew

4:30 am

sprite

if you mean the love god, he is not from there :)

4:31 am

cosdem

i was trying random words lole eroi erlo lol

4:31 am

Haz1558

Try el5/10 and el7/28

4:31 am

sprite

a female sprite, cosdem

4:31 am

cosdem

ty for the el5

4:31 am

cosdem

got both!

4:31 am

Haz1558

e plus a cut of meat, and then extend for el7. Sorry for trying to lead you astray.

4:31 am

cosdem

now i can go :P

4:31 am

Haz1558

Famous last words!

4:31 am

cosdem

actually. no.. 2 more i need 2 more Rs in the bottom 1st

4:32 am

cosdem

theres an ri 7 right?

4:32 am

sprite

LOL

4:32 am

sprite

cosdem is pulling a jilli on us

4:32 am

crystalle

11 years ago I spent 6 days in hospital after birth, 6 years ago it was down to 4 and 2 years ago it was over night. next thing u know it will be hours later

4:32 am

Haz1558

Yes, there is.

4:32 am

cosdem

clue for that?

4:32 am

cosdem

pwease?

4:32 am

Haz1558

One who does the action of ri6/36?

4:33 am

cosdem

duh thanks got it.. one more...

4:33 am

Haz1558

ri6/21 - the edge but more so.

4:34 am

cosdem

ok i dont have that.. looking

4:34 am

sprite

thx Haz

4:34 am

Haz1558

It's been in the grid recently, comparative ending.

4:34 am

cosdem

i remember that clue...

4:35 am

Haz1558

What the dyslexic aspiring poets said to each other. 'My poem is ri6 than yours'

4:35 am

sprite

it is a phantomy grid

4:35 am

cosdem

dumbn it down so i can go?

4:36 am

crystalle

I gotta go cook dinner. There are 3 kids and a hubby acting as if they havent eaten in days! IF i hear i a STARVING one more time i will SCREAM!

4:36 am

cosdem

oh i already have that lol

4:36 am

sprite

*puts fingers in ears*

4:36 am

cosdem

oh well ill look tomorrow.. night al/have a good day

4:36 am

SaraY

Oh Haz you have done it again - what a wonderful clue!

4:36 am

sprite

you going now, cosdem?

4:36 am

cosdem

poof!

4:37 am

Haz1558

WHAT a cruel woman you are, Sarah. Children starving and you're looking for words. I don't know. I'm shocked...

4:37 am

Haz1558

And a husband left to chew on his shoes.... Shocking.

4:37 am

SaraY

???

4:37 am

sprite

and all that from the woman who starves her dog?

4:38 am

Haz1558

I'm just joking! Honestly!

4:38 am

SaraY

??????????????????????????????????????
??????????????????

4:38 am

sprite

*grins* so was I

4:38 am

FMitch

and you meant crystalle not Sarah :)

4:39 am

sprite

Sara, Haz meant to say crystalle, not Sara, I am sure

4:39 am

FMitch

Morning ladies.

4:39 am

sprite

hey FM! *hugs*

4:39 am

SaraY

Forget the Sarah ... it is Sara

4:39 am

Haz1558

Sorry! You're right, a case of mistaken identity.

4:39 am

FMitch

How was your time away sprite?

4:40 am

Haz1558

Okay, time to grovel. Sara, I do apologise, I meant to address my remarks to crystalle rather than you and I should have taken note of your proper spelling. Forgiven?

4:40 am

sprite

it was wonderful, FM! And I am not overly tired now, and not overtaxed... seems I reached a milestone in getting better. Am very happy about it.

4:41 am

SaraY

Grovel accepted, you are forgiven.

4:41 am

FMitch

oh that IS good sprite!

4:41 am

sprite

:D

4:41 am

Haz1558

Hello, FM. I've been making fumblefingers faux pas.

4:41 am

Haz1558

Thank you, Sara, much relief.

4:41 am

SaraY

Me too

4:41 am

sprite

you missed an opportunity though, Haz. You could have blamed FM.

4:42 am

FMitch

Poor Haz, are you typing from under the desk again?

4:42 am

Haz1558

Not quite, but if I get any worse I'll be down there.

4:43 am

SaraY

Under the desk typing is fraught with problems

4:43 am

Haz1558

It is. Mirrors needed and extendable arms, it gets very difficult.

4:43 am

sprite

should I ask what is causing the typing from under the desk?

4:43 am

SaraY

No, better not

4:44 am

sprite

or rather: dare I ask?

4:44 am

sprite

darn, I was so curious! :)

4:44 am

FMitch

no-one can see Haz blush when she is under the desk.

4:44 am

Haz1558

In times of stress and shame, I feel like going under the desk. If it's good enough for the dog (her refuge in noisy fireworks times) it's good enough for me.

4:44 am

sprite

aw that is a shame. You are cute when you blush, Haz.

4:45 am

SaraY

I am sure we all - at some time- have an under the desk experience. Makes us human and loveable.

4:45 am

Haz1558

I blush when I remember why I blushed in the past.

4:45 am

crosshair

good morning ladies:) insomnia used to be a pain before babble:)now i can be a pain to other at all hours of the day and night;)

4:46 am

sprite

I am known for my foot-in-mouth moments, that's for sure

4:46 am

sprite

crossy, your being a pain is always a delight

4:46 am

SaraY

Hi crossy, welcome to the flagellating babblers group

4:46 am

FMitch

Morning (crossy)) what time is it?

4:47 am

crosshair

:) did i ever tell you that you are my favorite babbler sprite;0

4:47 am

crosshair

((FM))

4:47 am

crosshair

5:47 am

4:47 am

SaraY

What do we have to do to be up there with sprite?

4:47 am

FMitch

That is not so bad you wimp!

4:48 am

sprite

lol Haz, I can sympathise with that.

4:48 am

sprite

*hugs crossy*

4:48 am

FMitch

*passes crossy a good strong mug of proper tea*

4:49 am

crosshair

since i work afternoons,i have never been one to get up at 4 am just to drink 3 pots of coffee and stare out the window just to watch the sun come up

4:49 am

crosshair

mmmm tea.....

4:49 am

sprite

you'll have to become sprite, Sara... it isn't so easy ;)

4:49 am

SaraY

I will give up now - an impossible task and all power to you sprite

4:50 am

sprite

it's another love god day, FM... He waves at you today :)

4:50 am

sprite

on the other hand, Sara, you truly excel in being Sara!

4:51 am

SaraY

sprite, you have made my day!!

4:51 am

sprite

:D

4:51 am

FMitch

10 more mins then I have to go :(

4:52 am

sprite

aw FM :(
hate to see you go. But love to see you, however short, anyway.

4:52 am

sprite

how's your garden coming along?

4:52 am

FMitch

Everthing is bursting for and unfurling.

4:53 am

sprite

that is wonderful. Great to see it moving along every day, isn't it :)

4:54 am

SaraY

A good chance to say farewell FM as I really should be concentrating on this grid - chatterbox can be so addictive and before you know it the clock is almost down to nothing.

4:54 am

FMitch

It is indeed.
Phooey phone so TTFN.

4:54 am

sprite

bye Sara, have fun and sleep well.

bfn, FM *hugs*

4:55 am

Haz1558

Bye, Sara and FM.

4:56 am

Haz1558

I should go as well.

4:56 am

SaraY

I'm still here and plugging away - just saying bye to FM who had to go.

4:57 am

Haz1558

Ah, in that case, I'll say farewell to you, Sara and sprite, as I need to be doing other things.

4:57 am

Haz1558

Enjoy the grid and have a really good day. Bye!

4:57 am

SaraY

Bye Haz, have a good one (as we say in Oz)

4:58 am

Haz1558

Will do! *gone*

5:01 am

sprite

bye Haz, have a grand day!

5:01 am

MissOmnibus

/yawn hai again all

5:02 am

sprite

hi MissO :)

5:02 am

MissOmnibus

/hugs sprite... omgno lickety?!?!?!

5:03 am

sprite

no, not yet anyway. Lickety is often busy with football or socker on Fridays.

5:03 am

MissOmnibus

Ah I see, I thought it might have been an April Fools day joke :P

5:04 am

Jivingjenny0

there are 7 g's and I cannot find one, please help!!

5:05 am

sprite

lol, am afraid not. But I read in the children's newspaper this morning that the government has made a new law that says: all school children who come to school too late for 3 times in a year will be outplaced for a week in an institution that teaches them time management. I bet that IS a joke!

5:05 am

sprite

hi Jj, am sorry, I only have one so far. Like the restaurant's listing of foods, but starting G.

5:05 am

MissOmnibus

ahahahahahaha! I announced on facebook i was pregnant...

5:06 am

Jivingjenny0

gosh, sprite, I wish it wasn't a joke! what a brilliant idea

5:06 am

sprite

lol MissO!

5:06 am

FMitch

*pops bac in* There is no lickety today due to the extra word yesterday. Until he resets the prog it will not run properly again. *poof*

5:06 am

MissOmnibus

i only announce this once a year...

5:06 am

Jivingjenny0

thanx sprite, for my first g

5:07 am

MissOmnibus

sigh... thanks FM

5:07 am

sprite

it was a very good and thorough article. Number on hours of missed education, costs, how they are gonna train those kids... very well done. Convincing!

5:07 am

dizgrannie

gremlin has a list in his profile

5:07 am

MissOmnibus

wo?

5:07 am

scouser

gu7/52 compound word related to word on bottom row

5:07 am

MissOmnibus

what is this gremlin?

5:07 am

scouser

gu6/27 new alternative word for what Babblers do when desperate

5:07 am

dizgrannie

gremlin is another Babbler

5:07 am

sprite

ah great, thanks scouser. Hi dizgrannie too.

5:08 am

MissOmnibus

oooh ok gran

5:08 am

sprite

we monkey!

5:08 am

scouser

gu6/7 has to do with ooooook

5:08 am

scouser

I mean gu6/27

5:09 am

dizgrannie

hi sprite!

5:09 am

scouser

another phantom today: gurney

5:09 am

sprite

*tries desperately to turn monkeying into something Gu-ish*

5:10 am

sprite

and gunmen, scouser

5:11 am

Chris P

my phantom is geronimo

5:11 am

sprite

hi Chris, good one

5:12 am

scouser

yes Chris I found that earlier. sprite's statement relates to the gu7/52.

5:12 am

herinfernallady

HIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

5:12 am

sprite

hiya lady :)

5:13 am

herinfernallady

Hugs I have so missed everyone.

5:13 am

scouser

sprite it is a kind of monkey

5:13 am

sprite

thanks scouser, that will help

5:14 am

sprite

*hugs lady right back*
How've you been, hun?

5:14 am

sprite

wonderful, I found it, thanks. A new word for me.

5:14 am

scouser

and while we are with the gs g4/8 is a garden plant possibly a wild plant in Canada?

5:17 am

sprite

is that the one that rhymes with the restaurant's food listing?

5:18 am

herinfernallady

Been busy as all sin with work

5:19 am

sprite

still enjoying it, lady?

5:19 am

herinfernallady

Yes

5:19 am

sprite

am glad :D

5:19 am

herinfernallady

Errr did you just say GS?

5:20 am

sprite

lol no, scouser means G-words.

5:21 am

sprite

ah, found another combo, ge5/14 and 6/24.

5:22 am

herinfernallady

O ok

5:26 am

sandrafrances

morning all. how many words today please

5:27 am

sprite

hi sandra, 173. And it is not an easy grid, imo.

5:27 am

sandrafrances

thanks

5:30 am

herinfernallady

Sprite were you able to finsh those monster grids this week?

5:32 am

sprite

I was away for a couple of days, may have missed some monsters. I finished the Monday one, I believe.

5:34 am

herinfernallady

I couldn't do them too busy

5:35 am

sprite

fi4flies. A grid with a bite, for me anyway. My monkeys worked really hard.

5:35 am

herinfernallady

woot

5:36 am

sprite

must love and leave you, have a great evening and see you all so4. *hugs*

5:37 am

herinfernallady

loves

5:40 am

movieman

clues for the first column i plz

5:45 am

herinfernallady

Is that the one above the R bottom LEFT corner *the side away from the chat*

5:45 am

movieman

that's the one herin

5:47 am

lynxxx

i & where they find minerals underground, change the end vowel for the other one

5:47 am

lynxxx

Hello all

5:48 am

movieman

ta lynxxx

5:50 am

herinfernallady

Sorry I have no idea and I was distracted

5:51 am

movieman

Just need the right corner e now for nbt

5:52 am

herinfernallady

(found my first b.f on fb)

5:56 am

movieman

Anybody here?

5:56 am

FMitch

el5/10 and extend for el7/28
(e + cut of meat)

5:56 am

movieman

ta mitch

5:57 am

lynxxx

hi FM

5:57 am

FMitch

yw, not really here but am holding on the phone a.t.m
Hi lynxx and herin.

5:59 am

lynxxx

the other e is el5.16 pixie-like

5:59 am

herinfernallady

Hi

6:00 am

movieman

ty again lynxxx

6:00 am

Mema

Does someone have a clue list posted?

6:01 am

lynxxx

hi Mema, not sure, just started

6:01 am

FMitch

In my profile Mema

6:01 am

Mema

Thanks!

6:06 am

herinfernallady

Sorry everyone I am so distracted by shinny

6:22 am

vanillaslice

start the other cut of meat with the s

6:23 am

vanillaslice

how can I ever find the other 17 words without lickety?

6:24 am

herinfernallady

Vanilla: http://www.playbabble.com/profile_mini
.php?id=6864

6:25 am

vanillaslice

tyty

6:26 am

rubyfoo

hello everybody

6:26 am

rubyfoo

{{herin}}

6:27 am

herinfernallady

Hi Ruby

6:30 am

rubyfoo

is FM still here?

6:30 am

rubyfoo

who is shinny?

6:30 am

rubyfoo

hi vanilla

6:32 am

vanillaslice

hi ruby are you good?

6:33 am

rubyfoo

very good, ty, it's definitely spring!

6:33 am

vanillaslice

we're just into autumn here in Oz, but its been like summer the last wek or so

6:34 am

rubyfoo

flowers everywhere and everything is greening up!

6:36 am

herinfernallady

NIce. it is getting cold. Vanilla you in Melb?

6:36 am

vanillaslice

no, south in the West

6:37 am

vanillaslice

Hope to drive from MEl to Sydney early may

6:37 am

rubyfoo

but you never get snow in OZ, non?

6:38 am

crosshair

trying to get a 17 year old off to school in the morning is like trying to put a square peg in a round hole:(

6:38 am

crosshair

((ruby))

6:38 am

vanillaslice

not here but over east and in tasmania they do

6:38 am

rubyfoo

just lopp off the corners, King Procrustus!

6:38 am

rubyfoo

{{crossy}} that was meant for you

6:39 am

crosshair

lol,sorry was stunned there for a second,imagining living in places with no snow....

6:39 am

vanillaslice

by 17 they should take their own responsibilty

6:39 am

rubyfoo

it's hard to imagine, crossy

6:40 am

crosshair

you would thing so wouldnt you

6:40 am

vanillaslice

I haven't seen snow for eight years now when we were in Aurope

6:40 am

herinfernallady

There is snow in the hills in winter and in the Mountains but not like you get. I am praying it isn't like last year

6:40 am

crosshair

amazing...

6:40 am

vanillaslice

I don't want to see it either, love that sun

6:40 am

rubyfoo

I hope you've had the worst of it last year and that next year will be mild and even

6:41 am

crosshair

i must get over there and visit my city one day

6:41 am

herinfernallady

My knee is already playing up and it is not even winter. bah humbug

6:41 am

rubyfoo

we have a garden full of flowers but there is still snow on the distant mountains

6:41 am

rubyfoo

they had a poopy ski season, however!

6:41 am

vanillaslice

snow looks nice on a picture

6:42 am

rubyfoo

sorry about your knee, herin, you are too young for such troubles!!!!

6:42 am

crosshair

we are a ski resort town as well ruby,and it is a love/hate thing with the citiots

6:43 am

herinfernallady

Ruby I tore both meniscus ligaments in my right knee sitting down and getting up wrong.

6:43 am

rubyfoo

oh, that is awful, herin!

6:45 am

vanillaslice

trying to find en4,4 but nothing seems to work

6:45 am

herinfernallady

Did that years ago. I am special I did it sitting down the two ways are through age or trauma

6:45 am

rubyfoo

poor herin!

6:46 am

Anniebrook

hello everyone

6:46 am

Anniebrook

en and **e King Cole

6:46 am

rubyfoo

I think being tall, like you, leads to more injuries of connective tissue. We have the same number of bones and ligaments, but when you are tall, they are more stretched out, hence rthe risk of dopey injuries!

6:46 am

rubyfoo

{{annie}}

6:46 am

Anniebrook

(((ruby)))) how are you?

6:47 am

rubyfoo

enjoying spring at last

6:47 am

vanillaslice

lol I was sure I tried that 5 times

6:47 am

rubyfoo

how are you, annie?

6:47 am

herinfernallady

That and being a clutz. I fell asleep on the train this morning and had a small puddle of coffee on my leg as a wake up call

6:47 am

Anniebrook

fine, the forecast is for snow mixed with rain today...spring is not here,alas

hello herin, knees hurting, no fun for you...I am so happy you are enjoying your job

6:53 am

Kaplan the Magne

I feel the need to let everyone know that the word for a gun is hidden cleverly in this grid.

6:53 am

Anniebrook

hi kap, stats please on the gun

6:53 am

rubyfoo

hello kaplan,; how is yetta?

6:53 am

bichon

Good morning all. What a crappy spring day here in the North east

6:54 am

rubyfoo

{{bichon}} especially warm hug with daffodils!

6:54 am

Anniebrook

hi bichon, Spring is here!!! Or is it

6:54 am

Kaplan the Magne

I believe it is cleverly hidden as an ri word. Who can find it?

6:54 am

bichon

And, Lickety's not up, right?

6:54 am

Kaplan the Magne

Yetta is just waking up.

6:54 am

rubyfoo

shaking yetta!

6:55 am

grant

that's the bottom line, as they say...

6:55 am

rubyfoo

hahah grant

6:55 am

Gamer714

too obvious

6:55 am

Kaplan the Magne

Our Father is on the right!

6:55 am

Anniebrook

LOL, Kap, got it

6:55 am

rubyfoo

and there is a gu7/ compound word

6:56 am

rubyfoo

hi gamer

6:57 am

bichon

got the gu 7, ty ruby

7:00 am

bichon

is there a state for the left-hand i?

7:00 am

vanillaslice

theres the man who holds the gun too

7:00 am

bichon

*stat

7:01 am

vanillaslice

same ri

7:01 am

rubyfoo

im5/12 x2

7:02 am

rubyfoo

?? vanilla

7:02 am

vanillaslice

first one is i + yours

7:02 am

bichon

ty ruby

7:02 am

vanillaslice

next change the last letter

7:02 am

rubyfoo

doing so well, only have 72 left! hahah

7:03 am

bichon

got them ty all

7:03 am

vanillaslice

did u get those 2?

7:03 am

bichon

You're at the advantage ruby. You get up so much earlier than I do

7:03 am

vanillaslice

I have 10 to go now

7:03 am

rubyfoo

what about the gu + ?? +ri?

7:03 am

bichon

what time did you start vanilla

7:04 am

rubyfoo

yes, but I never finish, so what's the us?

7:04 am

grant

what is the count today?

7:04 am

rubyfoo

173

7:04 am

rubyfoo

use*

7:04 am

grant

thanks ruby

7:04 am

bichon

finishing isn't always the end goal ruby. Chatting with all of us is

7:05 am

vanillaslice

off and on, its now 8 pm and my wife i calling for attention

7:05 am

rubyfoo

amen, sister!

7:05 am

vanillaslice

she who must be obeyed must have priority

7:06 am

rubyfoo

uh oh, vanilla

7:06 am

vanillaslice

say amen brother

7:06 am

vanillaslice

lol be back later

7:06 am

rubyfoo

amen brother!!!! hahah

7:08 am

EvaNadine

mornin babblers!
today is the last day i will nag you for votes -- the poll closes in 2 hours, and Solar Crepes is just a few percentage points behind, so there is still hope!
Please take a minute to vote, and tell your friends!

morning, all! Going to find a couple of words and then hit the showers (really!!!)

7:16 am

Anniebrook

hi uu!

7:16 am

Anniebrook

hi uu!

7:16 am

Anniebrook

hi uu!

7:20 am

wvteach

good morning uusue - good show of will power

7:20 am

uusue2

yeah, well, we'll see :-)

7:23 am

uusue2

ok, 35 words, better get going...

7:24 am

uusue2

and WHY is it still so darn cold out???? I am TIRED of my winter clothes!!!!

7:26 am

Mom

good morning everyone

7:26 am

Anniebrook

(((Mom))) good morning

7:27 am

Mom

(((Annie))) good morning

7:27 am

Mom

how are you all doing? have the Yankees started their season yet?

7:27 am

jmcnrick

hi all

7:27 am

Mom

hi jmc

7:27 am

jmcnrick

Nats opening day was yesterday!

7:28 am

Anniebrook

Mom, the Yankees won their first game yesterday

7:28 am

Anniebrook

hi jmc

7:28 am

EvaNadine

oh black tea. giver of life...
mmmm.......

7:28 am

Mom

oh good, the Reds also won

7:28 am

grant

anyone know where to find a list today?

7:28 am

jmcnrick

*holds out cup*

7:28 am

Mom

Hi Eva, haven't seen you in a while. Hope all is well

7:28 am

Mom

Hi Grant, I do not, sorry

7:29 am

Anniebrook

In FMitch's profile

7:29 am

Mom

oh yes I do, FMitch has one in her profile

7:29 am

grant

thank you both

7:29 am

jmcnrick

little bunny foofoo hoppin through the forest scooping up the field mice and booping them on the head

7:29 am

Mom

I LOVE little bunny foofoo

7:30 am

Mom

:-)

7:30 am

EvaNadine

hi mom!
been very busy at work -- only had time to pop in + solicit votes for my friends food truck...heh
(link is posted in the chog, if you scroll down)

7:30 am

jmcnrick

:-)

7:30 am

Mom

okay, I'll do that Eva

7:31 am

EvaNadine

voting closes in 1.5 hours, so get your vote in now! :D

7:32 am

Mom

I just voted.

7:33 am

EvaNadine

thanky mom!

7:33 am

City 17 dweller

I've been voting Eva, on the principal that, were I not in the UK, I would be far more likely to eat from a van selling crepes than a van selling lobster. Lobster I'd try in a restaurant... an *oceanside* restaurant, at that.

7:33 am

EvaNadine

thanks for your votes, city!

7:34 am

EvaNadine

i have never eaten from either truck, personally, but the crepe truck is owned and run by an old coworker, so ive gotta support her. :)

7:34 am

City 17 dweller

yw - looks like your friend is creeping up on the competition (do you see how I resisted the urge to pun?)

7:34 am

Mom

you're welcome Eva. I am with City, I wouldn't want lobster off a truck. Although I have not eaten either

7:35 am

Mom

lol City

7:35 am

EvaNadine

heh, they have definitely been gaining ground. poll closes very soon, so it will be interesting to see if they can overtake them in time.
honestly, i didnt even expect them to come close, since the lobster truck is HUGE around here.

7:35 am

jmcnrick

i don't see the link

7:35 am

Riverdance

44.01% just voted again and good morning everyone

7:36 am

Mom

((River)) good morning

7:36 am

EvaNadine

jmc:
http://tinyurl.com/4d73kev

7:36 am

Riverdance

((Mom)) hello

7:36 am

Anniebrook

Hi River

7:36 am

Riverdance

snowing hard here - this is some April Fools joke - expecting a foot of snow - ugh!

7:36 am

ChampFit

Done again Eva, and reposted to my FB. Hi everyone!

7:37 am

Mom

Hi Champ

7:37 am

Mom

River, I saw that on the Weather Channel

7:37 am

MollyL

Link to FM's profile with the list for today....http://www.playbabble.com/pro
file_mini.php?id=6864

7:37 am

Anniebrook

Hi Molly

7:37 am

ChampFit

Hi Mom. Finding this grid a bit tough!

7:37 am

EvaNadine

hi champ -- thanks!
im not feeling great that they will get enough votes to win in time, but i think its amazing that it is this close!

7:37 am

MollyL

Hi Annie.

7:38 am

Mom

good morning Molly

7:38 am

ChampFit

Totally due to you Eva!

7:38 am

MollyL

Hi Mom, Happy Friday.

7:38 am

Mom

the lobster truck guy is probably thinking .... what the heck?

7:38 am

ChampFit

True!

7:38 am

wvteach

i have the list in my profile now also

7:39 am

Mom

Hi wvteach

7:39 am

wvteach

good morning all

7:39 am

ChampFit

thanks wvteach!

7:40 am

Riverdance

thanks teach - thats easier for me to get to

7:40 am

EvaNadine

oh. it seems the crepes score is actually falling... poo.

7:40 am

ChampFit

It'll be ok. You didn't expect them to get this far, right?

7:41 am

Mom

oh no Eva, maybe it will pick back up

7:41 am

Mom

it was 44 to 55 when I voted

7:43 am

MollyL

fi 8/70....RIIIIGHT. What a weird word.

7:44 am

Mom

gee Molly, care to clue?

7:45 am

MollyL

Compound word. A fish swims with a *** + we walk with our ***** (plural).

7:45 am

MollyL

And the second word sounds like put, not peat.

7:45 am

Anniebrook

thanks, molly...weird

7:45 am

Mom

thank you so much

7:46 am

EvaNadine

maybe thats what they call people with webbed toes...

7:46 am

MollyL

It sounds like some kind of strange animal.

7:46 am

Riverdance

strange - thanks Molly

7:46 am

Riverdance

that word grayed that tile - whoohoo

7:48 am

Mom

way to go River

7:48 am

wvteach

fi 8 - any of several aquatic birds of the family Heliornithidae, of South America, Asia, and Africa, related to the rails and coots and characterized by lobate toes.

7:50 am

Mom

E's and 1 I are grayed

7:53 am

Anniebrook

be back later

7:53 am

Riverdance

time to go make my breakfast - bbl - have fun everyone

7:53 am

Mom

bye bye ((Annie and River))

7:54 am

Mom

River, you are leaving early, it isn't 9 yet

7:54 am

Riverdance

hungry today - besides boss is hovering so must get off....for now anyway

7:55 am

Mom

ah I see. take care

7:55 am

Mom

**hate hovering bosses** they can be so nosy

7:56 am

72 Temple Owl

hello all...looking out the window iat big, fluffy snowflakes...

7:57 am

Mom

((TO)) good morning, how are you feeling?

7:59 am

72 Temple Owl

lousy, mom...i went to work yesterday but had chills and fever last night

7:59 am

Mom

oh dear, think you better go to the doctor?

8:00 am

72 Temple Owl

no. they don't do anything, just tell you to treat the symptoms and wait it out

8:00 am

Mom

that is terrible. Wish there was something I could do to help

8:01 am

72 Temple Owl

being home today will help

8:02 am

Mom

I sure hope so.

8:02 am

72 Temple Owl

weekend plans are on hold.

8:03 am

72 Temple Owl

do you have snow? a fine april fools day

8:03 am

Mom

no, we actually have sun this morning. Suppose to have rain showers this afternoon. High in the upper 40's

8:04 am

Mom

River was saying they are expecting 12 inches where she lives

8:05 am

72 Temple Owl

yes, i hear that. heavy, wet snow

8:05 am

wvteach

dark drizzly morning here

8:05 am

Mom

I sure hope we are finished with the snow.

8:05 am

Mom

Heavy wet snow is the worse I think

8:07 am

Mom

half way. time to get ready to go out. I am taking mom downtown today and then to lunch

8:07 am

72 Temple Owl

that is nice, mom.

8:08 am

Mom

((hugs)) to all of you.
Mom and I have a blast, she is so much fun

8:11 am

ivesy3

i have the fish swim with part of the fi word,but theres nothing in here that i walk on lol

8:12 am

PinnyPoppins

If that's the case, I'd hate to see what's at the end of your leg!

8:12 am

Mr Bob

Morning folks

8:12 am

ivesy3

roflol

8:12 am

wvteach

morning bob

8:12 am

ivesy3

omg just got it..wierd

8:13 am

Boobear

hi all

8:14 am

uusue2

ok, so the kid never came home from his girlfriend's last night, AND he has the car. So I will have to walk to work. *eats quickly*

8:15 am

hurshy

kid sounds like he needs a punishment.

8:16 am

uusue2

Well, I don't care about the GF part, he's 21, but we only have one car for the three of us and need to share nicely.

8:16 am

hurshy

indeed.

8:16 am

uusue2

He still has time but I'm not optomistic.

8:20 am

uusue2

actually walking will do me good - I should do it more - but I'd rather it be my own decision (of course, when I make my own decision I get SO to drive me!!)

8:20 am

car.eeyore

Oh boy....

8:21 am

uusue2

oh well. It's about a 20-minute walk, so not that big a deal. And I am off!

champ, i know my friend is super-excited. of course shes hoping to win, but just to be doing so well is making her quite happy. :)

8:33 am

grant

darkish movies and seeweed

8:33 am

grant

seaweed

8:33 am

bichon

it's not the darkish movie

8:33 am

bichon

seaweed, a hint?

8:34 am

grant

anagram of the movie

8:34 am

BabbleRabble

ne 4/7; 4/9; 4/6; 6/21; ni 6/36

8:35 am

JBV

thanks, BR - just greyed out the N!

8:36 am

bichon

okay, got the 4/7, ty

8:36 am

BabbleRabble

no 4/4 and 5/10

8:43 am

uusue2

ok, I am at work, kid picked me up halfway there, so he is half forgiven :-)

8:44 am

hootowl

44.44% ! We do good!

8:50 am

tceicher

mu

8:51 am

72 Temple Owl

hoot, do you have the maryanne esposito celebrations cookbook?

8:51 am

MollyL

Sue, that must be tough, sharing a car with two other people. I have shared a car with one other person, and it drove me nuts.

8:52 am

MollyL

*Sorry about the pun*

8:53 am

hootowl

No. Why?

8:53 am

Angela

can't let the 12 inches of snow win - off to run errands in the mayhem! bbl

8:53 am

72 Temple Owl

ust read your profile

8:53 am

uusue2

off to class, bbl (two classes back to back)

8:54 am

72 Temple Owl

bye angela bye uu

8:54 am

hootowl

Oh my "new" profile.") What are you looking for?

8:54 am

72 Temple Owl

mary anne esposito's celebrations

8:54 am

hootowl

I mean what recipe :D

8:55 am

hootowl

And that is my real last name...but no relation

8:55 am

72 Temple Owl

allof them

8:55 am

hootowl

aaah. Sorry

8:56 am

hootowl

brb

8:56 am

72 Temple Owl

i copyed some of the cokkies recipes from the library

9:01 am

robwhy

7 g words?? I haven't found a one!

9:01 am

JBV

hi folks - can anyone help me find my LAST word - More Words is not helping! - S from upper right - I have 2 si, 9 so, 4 st, 5 sw

9:01 am

JBV

I have the g's rob- need a clue?

9:02 am

robwhy

Thx JBV...several!

9:02 am

JBV

ge 5/14 - Aladdin's friend (plural)

9:02 am

pabtrek

JBV I have 5 st

9:02 am

JBV

ge 5/14 and plural - same beginning + **nald Reagan

9:02 am

72 Temple Owl

have st 5,6,7,5,4

9:03 am

JBV

ge 4/7 = Latin knee

9:03 am

JBV

thanks, TO _ I was missing the 5 !!! Fireworks!

9:04 am

JBV

ge 4/8 - two high point letters

9:04 am

JBV

gu 6/27 - type of monkey

9:04 am

72 Temple Owl

grats, jbv

9:04 am

EvaNadine

well, want to thank you all for your votes on the food truck fight.
the poll is now closed, and my friend lost, 44% to 55% -- but thanks to you all, she gained a lot of ground! thanks for your votes!

9:04 am

JBV

gu 7/52 compound word related to shooting

9:04 am

robwhy

lol JBV--you are way more literate than I...I don't understand any of your clues! Thanks for trying

9:05 am

JBV

Do you use More Words, rob? just enter gu**** and you'll get a list

9:06 am

robwhy

I don't know what More Words is

9:06 am

JBV

www.morewords.com

9:06 am

hootowl

Very odd time to stop a poll - why not noon or midnight?

9:07 am

JBV

enter the first two letters + asterisk for all the words beginning with those letters, or you can enter the first two letters + number of question marks for the exact number of letters, so for gu 6 you enter gu????

9:08 am

JBV

I have Babble Expert, so More Words is under "Resources" in the toolbar

9:08 am

robwhy

I emailed and requested Expert, but so far no reply

9:09 am

EvaNadine

no idea, hoot!

9:11 am

hootowl

rhetorical anyway. But hopefully very good publisity.

9:11 am

72 Temple Owl

same here. have given up on it

9:13 am

hootowl

TO - I just checked my cook book club but it is not listed in the current catalog. I will try going there and seeing if they still have it. Also have a used bookstore that usually has a good selection.

9:13 am

LuvWordGames

there's an April 1st word in the grid

9:13 am

hootowl

I realt, really have to clean this keyboard!

9:15 am

hootowl

there is also Amazon & ebay

9:15 am

72 Temple Owl

ty hoot

9:15 am

hootowl

or take out book from library and copy what you want and return it

9:24 am

wht

Hi all. I am working from home today because I didn't want to commute in the snow.

9:25 am

wht

Does anyone have stats for the i in the left hand column? I need it for nbt.

9:26 am

flosey

im5/12 x 2

9:26 am

ursh

i think it is im5/12

9:26 am

wht

ty.

9:26 am

flosey

good morning everyone

9:26 am

ursh

ooo tx flo only had 1

9:27 am

flosey

yw wht and ursh

9:29 am

wht

Got both the im's. NBT

9:29 am

wht

Now I can get back to work.

9:30 am

Kallia

I have 51 left, but nothing from the middle n...any clues please

9:30 am

flosey

aha, me too Kallia

9:30 am

Kallia

just got 1

9:30 am

Anniebrook

no4,,,japanese seaweed

9:31 am

Kallia

ty annie

9:31 am

Kallia

no idea how I managed to miss that!

9:32 am

wht

Use your brain cells, Kallia (It is a clue)

9:32 am

Kallia

I have that one I think wht a 6?

9:32 am

wht

Yes

9:33 am

Kallia

thanks :)

9:35 am

hootowl

I have ne4/9 & ne 4/6

9:38 am

Kallia

ty for the 4/9 hoot

9:38 am

hootowl

yw

9:40 am

FMitch

There are 2 x n6 ... ne6/21 and ni6/36

9:42 am

hootowl

got the 6/36 - strange words today! ty

9:43 am

FMitch

yw and hello hoot :)

9:44 am

Kallia

ty FM

9:44 am

Kallia

if you can have a ni 9 why not a ni4?

9:44 am

hootowl

hi FM

9:44 am

hootowl

too easy

9:45 am

hootowl

but... if you change one of the hi point letters to vowel....

9:48 am

hootowl

and change the first vowel - sorry ne4/7

9:54 am

FMitch

Keep getting interupted by the phone, not fair!

9:55 am

Sandieangel

does anyone know if there is alist anywhere today please?

9:56 am

FMitch

In my profile Sandie

9:56 am

anike

Has anyone posted a list?

9:56 am

Sandieangel

Thanks FMitch. I'll look for it now.

9:57 am

Uneaixoise

there's a list in my profile -- copied from wvteach

9:57 am

anike

Thanks guys

10:00 am

hootowl

bbl - have to get BF off to work

10:05 am

Riverdance

9 N's left - I dont like N's - hello again everyone

10:07 am

Uneaixoise

off to a meeting -- have a good day, everyone! *Poof*

10:12 am

crosshair

howdy everyone:)

10:12 am

Aloyisius

howdy crossy, howdy all

10:15 am

Aloyisius

h'mm, mighty quiet in the chog.. Babble gears must be turning

10:15 am

poodletoes

I cant find ANY of the G words!'

10:16 am

Aloyisius

well, poodle, gu7 alerted the police to the presence of a sniper

10:16 am

inge

b

10:17 am

Aloyisius

the sounds of gu7 that is

10:17 am

poodletoes

ty aloyisius!

10:18 am

Aloyisius

yvw.. try the pl of Aladdin in the lamp next for ge5

10:18 am

poodletoes

ty again'

10:18 am

Aloyisius

ends with double first person singular

10:19 am

Aloyisius

yay, now you off to a "g" start

10:19 am

Sandieangel

can anyone clue me ge4/7 please. I've tried everything.

10:20 am

Aloyisius

ge**s and species, Sandie

10:20 am

crosshair

if you knew what the ge** knew

10:22 am

Sandieangel

Nope just can't get it. wonder if it is in the right place in Fmitch's list.

10:23 am

Sandieangel

Wait a minute. I'm looking in the wrong place.

10:23 am

Aloyisius

ge + **tty buddy

10:23 am

rururocks

ge 4 is the beginning of real

10:23 am

Riverdance

ge + a good profession is a **rse in a hospital

10:23 am

Aloyisius

hi ruru (-:

10:24 am

rururocks

hi aloy.. you've been missing for a while..you okay?

10:24 am

Aloyisius

yup.. mighty busy, ruru.. but all is well. How are you?

10:25 am

Riverdance

FIREWORKS

10:25 am

rururocks

oh.. good

10:25 am

Aloyisius

yahoo, wahoo for River!!!

10:25 am

rururocks

I'm fine.. finally recovered from hand issues

10:25 am

Riverdance

tough grid - thank goodness for morewords

10:25 am

Aloyisius

ooh.. surgery on your hand?

10:25 am

Riverdance

ready for your big game ruru?

10:26 am

Aloyisius

yes, River.. running into a bunch of newbies..

10:29 am

Riverdance

must get back to work - anyone need any clues before I go?

10:29 am

Aloyisius

ty, River.. will plod on.. hagd!

10:31 am

Riverdance

we have a theme in our grid today = too much water ru6/39 will cause er7/28 to the soil

10:31 am

rururocks

yes river.. more than ready

10:31 am

Riverdance

my free clues for the day - have a good one everyone and happy April 1 - getting a foot of snow here today and that is no joke - bye for now

10:31 am

Aloyisius

nice observation, River.. and your name helps with the ru6 too.. (-:

10:32 am

crosshair

ty river

10:32 am

mkg

hi all. need clues for the two 8s please.

10:32 am

mkg

no lickety today? ugh

10:33 am

Aloyisius

hi mkg.. gremlinn posted, FM also put the list in her profile and I think Une did too

10:33 am

Aloyisius

thanks to those thoughtful Babblers, my sanity is saved

10:34 am

markytom

gu

10:34 am

Kaplan the Magne

stats on the 8s? Good morning?

10:35 am

mkg

ty. what is gu word marky?

10:35 am

Aloyisius

fi8.70

10:35 am

MollyL

fi 8/70 and in 8/55

10:35 am

Aloyisius

in8.55

10:35 am

mkg

any clues for them please?

10:36 am

Aloyisius

don't want to buy things with in8 workmanship

10:36 am

mkg

ty for in.

10:37 am

Aloyisius

the fi* on the fish + don't stick your **** in your mouth

10:39 am

anike

I have entered all the n words but the grid still shows one missing - I have refreshed, retyped all the words but I can't fix it

10:41 am

Aloyisius

ooch.. don't know what you can do.. I would go back and recount the n's by category, i.e., do you have 4ne, 1ni, 8no, 1 nu?

10:41 am

mkg

fi on the fish? what does that mean alo?\

10:42 am

Aloyisius

sometimes you can overlook

10:42 am

Aloyisius

the thing that sticks up out of the water and helps to keep the fish stable when it swims, mkg

10:42 am

mkg

dont stick your hand in your mouth. dont see hand in there.

10:42 am

anike

There are 13 n's and i have 13 words

10:42 am

mkg

got the fi. not need that in the mouth part. hmmm

10:42 am

Aloyisius

lol mkg... your ankle is part of the body part I was clueing

10:43 am

Aloyisius

h'mm ..

10:43 am

Aloyisius

and your toes belong there too

10:43 am

mkg

ty got it. weird word. weird indeed.

10:44 am

Aloyisius

true, mkg

10:44 am

rururocks

is there a list anywhere?

10:45 am

Aloyisius

FM, gremlinn, Une

10:45 am

rururocks

ty

10:45 am

Aloyisius

yw

10:45 am

rururocks

une finished.? oh darn

10:45 am

periwinkle

hello al, not liking this grid

10:46 am

Aloyisius

were you racing her ruru?

10:46 am

Aloyisius

hi peri

10:46 am

jmcnrick

hi all

10:46 am

periwinkle

help with u' pls. I have u6/33

10:47 am

periwinkle

and I found un6/21 :)

10:47 am

rururocks

I always race une..

10:47 am

rururocks

she cracks me up

10:47 am

rururocks

hi jm and peri

10:48 am

Aloyisius

un + the cover on your house for un6.30

10:48 am

Aloyisius

brb.. laundry

10:48 am

periwinkle

ty Aloy

10:48 am

jmcnrick

un5/20

10:49 am

jmcnrick

lose

10:49 am

jmcnrick

lost?

10:50 am

rururocks

*hands jm a map*

10:50 am

periwinkle

not seeing it jmc

10:50 am

jmcnrick

hey! that was a clue

10:50 am

jmcnrick

use the big point letter

10:52 am

periwinkle

got it, ty, jmc

10:52 am

Erda

help on gu7 please?

10:52 am

jmcnrick

un+I wish the Nationals had *** yesterday

10:52 am

jmcnrick

oh good yw

10:53 am

periwinkle

compound word, Erda

10:53 am

MollyL

I just read on Facebook that the new Babble will be up tomorrow.

10:54 am

periwinkle

really? don't know whether to be excited or scared

10:54 am

Erda

that's no help, peri

10:54 am

vanillaslice

clue plz for ri6,21

10:55 am

periwinkle

gu7 you shoot with a gu* and flames

10:55 am

Erda

got it

10:55 am

Erda

iffier

10:56 am

Erda

sorry sorry

10:56 am

uusue2

nice word, erda :-)

10:56 am

Erda

tee hee

10:57 am

periwinkle

help with o above the f pls

10:57 am

MollyL

I'll make you an of*** you can't refuse.

10:58 am

MollyL

Sorry, wrong o.

10:58 am

periwinkle

I have that Molly, it is from another o, but thanks

10:58 am

lilliann

nearly what noise an owl makes

10:58 am

bichon

Molly, how do you find this on the Babble group on Facebook

10:58 am

periwinkle

ty Lil

10:58 am

MollyL

Oh, by the way everyone...APRIL FOOLS!!!

10:59 am

vanillaslice

ri6 anyone? pls

10:59 am

lilliann

yw peri there is an or 6 which ends in male offspring of parents

10:59 am

periwinkle

really, Molly, so it does not start tomorrow? very funny, not

10:59 am

lilliann

i don't have the ri6,21 yet vanilla, sorry

11:00 am

vanillaslice

np

11:00 am

periwinkle

ty lil

11:00 am

uusue2

and I am between classes after really messing up an example problem in the first class, very embarrassing!

11:00 am

lilliann

that finished 5 hours ago here molly :)

11:00 am

Jillyjill

No lickety? Anyone have a list? I checked Jacula.

11:01 am

uusue2

I have an ri6/27 that adds a consonant to the ri5/16...

11:01 am

MollyL

Okay wow. Sorry. Just an April Fools joke in fun. Later folks.

11:01 am

lilliann

i've got mine from fm jilly

11:01 am

Jillyjill

thx

11:01 am

uusue2

gee, I should have though of that when I messed up that example, molly!!

11:01 am

uusue2

(april fools, that is..)

11:01 am

lilliann

i thought it was funny, np

11:02 am

cybernan

hello everyone :)

11:02 am

bichon

gu 6/27?, just a hint

11:02 am

lilliann

hi nan

11:02 am

bichon

Hi nan

11:02 am

crosshair

sue,way back in the day, we had a prof who used to put up incorrect equations of the board then have us all going nuts trying to find his mistakes and show our work for the correct example...was great fun:)

11:02 am

uusue2

hi, nan!

11:02 am

uusue2

hahaha crossy, I do that without meaning to!

11:02 am

lilliann

that's the gu i can't find bichon

11:03 am

jan

Hi nan! I'm just getting started myself, but this grid seems sticky.

11:03 am

crosshair

he made it a challenge,was a interesting way to go about it

11:03 am

cybernan

I started it last night -- left with 111 down

11:03 am

vanillaslice

yes, I have that one thx uus

11:04 am

cybernan

don't have the gu 6 either it has to have one 2 pt letter in it somewhere

11:05 am

cybernan

...and as there is only 1...

11:05 am

jan

My benchmark for tough grids is to try to run through first without paying any attention to the tile stats--if the first run through nets less than half, it's gonna be a bear for me. My first runthrough on this one netted me 76...

11:07 am

lilliann

gg jan

11:11 am

jan

OK monkeyed the gu...literally, as it turns out to be a kind of monkey!!

11:11 am

jan

It ends in an anagram of the n word meaning zero.

11:11 am

uusue2

Just for laughs - Fermilab's April Fools issue of Fermilab Today: http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/april_fo
ols_2011.html

11:13 am

lilliann

tyv jan

11:14 am

rastapopolous

another good April Fool: http://action.ucsusa.org/site/Ecard?ec
ard_id=1761&autologin=true

11:14 am

uusue2

thx for the clue, jan!

11:14 am

cybernan

ty jan -- forgot the u was 2 points and the rest had to be one!

11:15 am

cybernan

was busy trying to get that m in there!

11:15 am

lilliann

me too nan

11:16 am

cybernan

have the bottle dweller and the monkey -- now to find the other 5

11:18 am

rastapopolous

the noise of battle...

11:18 am

jmcnrick

bottle dweller?

11:19 am

cybernan

aladin's friend pl.

11:19 am

cybernan

*aladdin

11:19 am

jan

Actually, not quite the bottle dweller. The plural of a biological category, I think

11:19 am

cybernan

you are right, jan

11:19 am

jan

Oh, is it the plural of that too? I didn't realize.

11:20 am

cybernan

I'm not sure that it is either jan, lol

11:20 am

rastapopolous

no, the plural of the biological family is genera.

11:21 am

cybernan

battle noise -- the only thing I can think of is adding shot

11:21 am

bichon

re 6/30?

11:22 am

rastapopolous

ready, aim,.... ?

11:23 am

vanillaslice

bic, famous

11:23 am

cybernan

ty rasta

11:23 am

bichon

tysm vanilla

11:23 am

rururocks

er7?

11:24 am

jmcnrick

the only bottle dweller i know is the worm in tequila

11:24 am

Kateq

soil washed away ruru

11:24 am

vanillaslice

wind causes soil .....

11:25 am

rururocks

thank you both

11:25 am

Kateq

fireworks for me....any clues before I go?

11:25 am

rastapopolous

sometimes it's a lamp dweller

11:25 am

jmcnrick

oooooooooo!

11:25 am

vanillaslice

yes, ri6 pls

11:25 am

jmcnrick

whoo hoo kate

11:26 am

cybernan

54 of them kate -- haven't looked for a list yet

11:26 am

jmcnrick

ty ty

11:26 am

Kateq

thinking how to clue---extension of ri 4/10

11:26 am

crosshair

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men’s hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead...crossy loves good book quotes...

11:26 am

Kateq

rhymes with wh***** ball

11:26 am

Kallia

I have 3 ri 6's

11:27 am

wht

ri6, what you might do with a deck of cards

11:27 am

cybernan

ri 6: change first vowel of a flounce on a blouse or dress

11:27 am

jmcnrick

hi kalia wht and cyber

11:27 am

Kallia

hi jmc

11:28 am

Kateq

i'm off---have a lovely day/evening everyone

11:28 am

Kallia

hi cybernan

11:28 am

jmcnrick

bye kate

11:28 am

cybernan

Hi Kallia -- have you thought anymore about what day of the week would be good to meet? and do you want to meet for lunch or tea?

11:29 am

Kallia

anytea apart from a Wednesdy cyber, and really no preference re lunch or tea...I can fit in with whatever you and hubby are doing :)

11:29 am

vanillaslice

ask a man about a flounce lol. The word should have all one pointers and start rin or rio by my thinking

11:30 am

Kallia

add an extra high scoring into the gun

11:30 am

cybernan

What about market day lunch (whatever day of the week that is)?

11:30 am

rururocks

what is a flounce?

11:30 am

Kallia

Think that is still Tuesday...let me check

11:31 am

crosshair

ok,i am not happy ,the grid does not take "nooner"

11:31 am

Kallia

they had a fire in the market square yesterday cyber

11:32 am

jmcnrick

a flounce is a larger and gather layer on top of another layer of a piece of clothing --country dance skirts often have foulnces

11:32 am

cgw8

Hey, all, long time no see.

11:32 am

jmcnrick

*flounces

11:32 am

Kenny Chuck

Does anybody has the clues? Please

11:32 am

vanillaslice

yes, sorry I had that one

11:32 am

cybernan

oh no! -- guess we will have to wait and see if the market has re-opened by the first week in June. We are pretty flexible as to days, other than we do like to take in the local market wherever we are.

11:32 am

jmcnrick

does sciencegeek babble anymore?

11:33 am

Kallia

yep it's still Tuesday Cyber...will probably come on the train, parking can be a bit difficult

11:33 am

vanillaslice

ri6,21 pls

11:33 am

cybernan

ok -- we'll keep in touch -- can pick you up at the station

11:33 am

Kallia

oh I think the market will be open, it was some of the older buildings, opposite to Debenhams...

11:34 am

jmcnrick

FM and une have a list Kenny

11:34 am

Kenny Chuck

Thanks

11:34 am

cybernan

Isn't the market in the old town?

11:34 am

Kallia

cool :)

11:35 am

jmcnrick

is cyber going to scotland or is kallia going to canada?

11:35 am

cgw8

How many words are in today's grid?

11:35 am

jmcnrick

173

11:35 am

cybernan

I am going to Salisbury which is close to where Kallia lives.

11:35 am

cgw8

Thanks. :)

11:35 am

jmcnrick

neat!

11:36 am

Kallia

cyber is coming to England.....I live in Hampshire not Scotland :)

11:36 am

cybernan

I suppose not close in old world miles, but close in North American ones!

11:36 am

Kallia

Flag for my Scots ancestry :)

11:36 am

jmcnrick

sorry my mistake kallia

11:36 am

jmcnrick

oh then

11:36 am

Kallia

no mistake jmc....how would you know :)

11:37 am

cybernan

And as a 2nd generation Canadian, I choose to fly the Candian flag rather than the Scottish one.

11:37 am

jmcnrick

lol here!

11:37 am

cybernan

I wish we could have double flags, like those pins you can buy.

11:37 am

Kallia

that would be good wouldn't it?

11:37 am

jmcnrick

of course i am a *counting on fingers* 7th or 8th generation U.S.

11:38 am

jmcnrick

but oddly enough nearly pure blooded scottish for all those generations

11:38 am

Kallia

oh I see you are celebrating Scottish ancestry too jmc lol

11:38 am

jmcnrick

:-)

11:39 am

jmcnrick

for today anyway kalia

11:39 am

Kallia

:)

11:39 am

Kallia

anyway have to go see to dinner....37 left so may be back later

11:39 am

Kallia

bye for now :)

11:40 am

vanillaslice

I'll have to sleep on ri 6,21, it's 12.40 am here!! Bye all.

11:41 am

Kaplan the Magne

Hi all. Stats on the 8s please?

11:43 am

cybernan

What time is it in the UK kallia? - have to phone my cousin in Dunfermline.

11:43 am

uusue2

ok, had to reboot, chrome is much happier now.

11:43 am

crosshair

crossy loves chrome;)

11:43 am

cybernan

oh -- see she has left

11:43 am

Kaplan the Magne

Hellooooooooooooo????????????

11:43 am

vanillaslice

brainwave, got it yah

11:43 am

Kaplan the Magne

Stats on the 8s, or any of the i's???????????

11:44 am

crosshair

in 8/55

11:44 am

Kaplan the Magne

Thank you Crossy. I was beginning to feel neglected.

11:44 am

hootowl

fi8/70

11:45 am

crosshair

im 5/12 if 6/36

11:45 am

Kaplan the Magne

:)

11:45 am

Kaplan the Magne

TY all!

11:46 am

hootowl

that if is silly

11:46 am

Aloyisius

ok, back to finish up.. hi again to all

11:47 am

Kaplan the Magne

Thanks again, Hoot.

11:47 am

hootowl

yw - hi again too

11:48 am

hootowl

but fi8 is much sillier

11:49 am

uusue2

sorry to be ignoring you, kap, but I don't have a list yet and therefore no stats...

11:49 am

Kaplan the Magne

That's OK. I'll deal.

11:49 am

uusue2

just noticed that I am nbs thanks to someone cluing the fi8 earlier...

11:49 am

uusue2

but am missing the leftmost I and the central N for nbt.

11:51 am

hootowl

I think the i is um5/12

11:51 am

uusue2

thx, hoot!

11:51 am

jan

Ne/7 is the central n I believe

11:51 am

hootowl

sorry there are 2 im5/12

11:52 am

hootowl

yw

11:52 am

uusue2

well, I found one of them, hoot, and also an ne6, so now I have nbt.

11:53 am

hootowl

the im's have diff vowel end

11:53 am

jmcnrick

cyber it is about 6 pm in England

11:53 am

jmcnrick

wd uu

11:54 am

jmcnrick

i still have lots of vowel words to find for nbt

11:54 am

uusue2

ok, got the other one, thx hoot!

11:54 am

uusue2

time for class (again), back for lunch in an hour!

11:55 am

jmcnrick

bye uu

11:55 am

jmcnrick

i must reboot and do some work bbl

11:56 am

hootowl

yw

11:57 am

crosshair

ne 7= protons,electrons and ne****s

12:00 pm

crosshair

tap..tap...hello....is this mike on?...lol

12:00 pm

hootowl

yesssssss

12:00 pm

hootowl

lag too

12:00 pm

hootowl

lunch time

12:01 pm

Aloyisius

aaaaaack, will try again, keep getting interrupted

12:01 pm

Aloyisius

(hanging out sign, "go away, I'm Babbling" )

12:02 pm

Aloyisius

ear plugs in, can't hear the phone

12:07 pm

cybernan

clue for the fi 8, please?

12:07 pm

Aloyisius

start with a part of a fish and end with what your toes are attached to

12:08 pm

hootowl

what moves a fish + what's at the end of your leg

12:08 pm

Aloyisius

but you have to pl it

12:08 pm

hootowl

then pl

12:08 pm

cybernan

ty -- it is silly

12:08 pm

hootowl

yep!

12:09 pm

Aloyisius

silly to the max

12:09 pm

cybernan

still 2 f's to find

12:11 pm

72 Temple Owl

have ne6 nerve word but no ne7 physics word exists

12:12 pm

cybernan

the likelihood of me finding a physics word is nil

12:12 pm

72 Temple Owl

nan you would know the parts of an atom

12:13 pm

72 Temple Owl

i saw a clue for ne7 that implies that a part of the atom is in this grid

12:13 pm

hootowl

think that might be the ne4/9 - sounds like physics

12:13 pm

cybernan

no idea to

12:13 pm

Erda

no, someone clued it wrong a while back; it has to do with nerves

12:13 pm

hootowl

yep

12:13 pm

cybernan

there are east ne 4/9 fishing villages in Scotland

12:14 pm

72 Temple Owl

@ 11:57: ne 7= protons,electrons and ne****s

12:14 pm

Erda

WRONG

12:14 pm

cybernan

have that one to

12:14 pm

72 Temple Owl

so there is not ne7?

12:14 pm

hootowl

not right

12:14 pm

cybernan

but no ne 7

12:14 pm

Erda

that would be neutrons, not in this grid

12:14 pm

hootowl

nope

12:15 pm

72 Temple Owl

ty.

12:15 pm

72 Temple Owl

i haad the nerve word ne6

12:16 pm

cybernan

gremm has a list posted

12:17 pm

cybernan

no ne 7

12:17 pm

72 Temple Owl

no lickety then

12:17 pm

hootowl

I have FMs list

12:17 pm

hootowl

she got it from grem

12:19 pm

Aloyisius

just found the si7.28 steak; now I'm hungry

12:23 pm

Aloyisius

fireworks.. happy to clue if anyone needs a nudge

12:23 pm

72 Temple Owl

wtg aloy!

12:23 pm

hootowl

congrats

12:23 pm

cybernan

congrats, aloy

12:23 pm

Aloyisius

ty.. tricky grid me thinks

12:24 pm

cybernan

en 6, please?

12:24 pm

Aloyisius

en + what holds a tree in the ground

12:24 pm

Aloyisius

then pl it

12:25 pm

72 Temple Owl

well the last 30 ir so will be harder than the first 140 ir so

12:25 pm

cybernan

ty aloy

12:26 pm

Aloyisius

yvw, glad you found it nan

12:27 pm

Aloyisius

off to choreland.. see you next grid, byee

12:28 pm

cybernan

fo 6, please?

12:28 pm

cybernan

bye aloy

12:29 pm

Aloyisius

fo + end of po**** ivy, scratch, scratch.. POOF

12:30 pm

cybernan

mmm - not in dictionary -- must be similar

12:31 pm

cybernan

got it - ty

12:37 pm

cybernan

first fr 6, please?

12:38 pm

hootowl

don't have it - sorry

12:38 pm

Haz1558

fr6/33 - in anatomy the little bit of membrane under the tongue

12:39 pm

cybernan

heaven's to betsy -- have no idea, haz!

12:39 pm

hootowl

it's nagging at me - I just can't remember it

12:40 pm

Haz1558

In that case, first letters that mean not stale (three) then first letters of when you have no feeling somewhere.

12:40 pm

cybernan

ty haz :)

12:40 pm

hootowl

yes! ty

12:40 pm

Haz1558

You're welcome!

12:41 pm

72 Temple Owl

hi haz

12:41 pm

hootowl

hi Haz

12:41 pm

Haz1558

Hello, TO. Feeling any better today?

12:41 pm

Haz1558

And I should say good afternoon/evening all as well.

12:42 pm

72 Temple Owl

not really, haz. t for sking

12:42 pm

72 Temple Owl

is there a definition about for the in6?

12:42 pm

Haz1558

Oh dear, it's horrible when you're not well. Hope you improve soon.

12:43 pm

MollyL

The word I know for that fr definition has another u and an l in it. That's why I was confused.

12:43 pm

Haz1558

No in6 in the grid, TO, is it in5 instead? Lots of them.

12:44 pm

72 Temple Owl

i am watching a gardening show on qvc and they are showing lavendar topiaries.

12:44 pm

72 Temple Owl

i thought there was an in8?

12:44 pm

Haz1558

There is - in8 - of poor quality compared to another

12:45 pm

72 Temple Owl

ty i cannot BELIEVE i missed that

12:45 pm

72 Temple Owl

and the 5 as well

12:45 pm

Haz1558

Oh, it's as twisty as all get out and you're sick as well. No wonder you didn't see it.

12:46 pm

72 Temple Owl

lavendar topiary would be stellar, since most lavendat has such a sprawling habit

12:46 pm

Haz1558

Would you have to keep trimming it all the time?

12:47 pm

hootowl

need food! bbl

12:47 pm

hootowl

yes

12:47 pm

Haz1558

I like the look and smell of lavendar in plant form but lavendar perfume doesn't appeal at all.

12:47 pm

Haz1558

Enjoy your food, hoot.

12:47 pm

72 Temple Owl

gee, i don't know. that would be certain death with my limited skills

12:50 pm

hootowl

topiaries have to be kept trimmed to keep their shape

12:50 pm

Haz1558

You could always send it back if it's died before your 30 days is up.

12:51 pm

72 Temple Owl

actually one gets a guarantee

12:51 pm

hootowl

yiu can do it yurself

12:51 pm

72 Temple Owl

sort of pricey though

12:51 pm

Haz1558

Well, there you are then, failsafe lavendar.

12:51 pm

72 Temple Owl

you get a three year old plant

12:52 pm

72 Temple Owl

gee i am so restless today, going from activity to activity and very frustrated.

12:53 pm

Haz1558

It's rotten when nothing takes your fancy for long.

12:54 pm

72 Temple Owl

we had snow today haz. :/

12:55 pm

Haz1558

That would have been pretty unwelcome. I assume it's much later than normal?

12:56 pm

72 Temple Owl

usuallly march is the end. new england is getting about a foot, we just got enough to coat the trees an it is already gone

12:57 pm

Haz1558

I'm glad it's not sticking around for you. We're used to snow that comes and goes very quickly which is why the past two winters have been so unusual for us with snow lasting weeks.

12:58 pm

72 Temple Owl

today is openeing day here for baseball, too

12:59 pm

Haz1558

Does that mean the football season is over or do they coexist?

12:59 pm

crosshair

off to work for crossy,take care everyone and happy babbling!...poink!

12:59 pm

72 Temple Owl

no, football is over. super bowl is in early feb; there may be a probowl shortly after

1:00 pm

bichon

gu 6?

1:01 pm

Haz1558

gu6 - it ends in a French negative, bichon.

1:01 pm

cybernan

or 6, please?

1:02 pm

Haz1558

or6 - Pretty Woman Roy prays to find his missing letter.

1:02 pm

bichon

ty Haz

1:02 pm

Haz1558

You're welcome, bichon.

1:02 pm

hootowl

that would be helpful if I knew french

1:02 pm

72 Temple Owl

nice

1:02 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Nice, Haz.

1:03 pm

cybernan

who on earth is pretty woman roy?

1:03 pm

Kaplan the Magne

You do double crostics?

1:03 pm

Haz1558

It's just the word for no in French, hoot.

1:03 pm

Haz1558

And now who has 'Pretty Woman' singing in their head?

1:03 pm

hootowl

got the or - ty

1:04 pm

72 Temple Owl

:/

1:04 pm

Haz1558

Roy O - sang Pretty Woman, American singer from the 60s onwards.

1:04 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Roy ****** sings for the lonely- hey that's me and I want you only"

1:04 pm

cybernan

oh -- clue still doesn't make sense to me

1:05 pm

Kaplan the Magne

It's a double crostic kind of clue, if you do those.

1:05 pm

Haz1558

Always wore dark glasses, had a wonderful voice. But if you don't know him, then try or plus a vowel then a male descendant. It's a type of prayer.

1:05 pm

cybernan

found it -- missing letter is a b?

1:05 pm

Haz1558

It is.

1:05 pm

hootowl

yes

1:05 pm

cybernan

ty haz

1:06 pm

Haz1558

You're welcome, cybernan.

1:06 pm

cybernan

need a break here -- back in a bit

1:06 pm

hootowl

yeah - well what I'm trying hasn't worked. I'll keep on

1:06 pm

Kaplan the Magne

It was a very good double crostic clue, including the meaning of the word in one part and the word alteration in the other part.

1:06 pm

hootowl

got it! ty

1:06 pm

cybernan

haz - are you planning to visit kallia while we are in the uk?

1:07 pm

Haz1558

For gu6? Glad you got there, hoot.

1:07 pm

sammysmom

didanyone make a list??

1:07 pm

Flask1

Hi all....clue please for fi8/70 please?

1:07 pm

Haz1558

I hadn't planned to, cybernan, I'm kind of tied up with a daughter getting married this summer.

1:07 pm

Kaplan the Magne

I still don't have a left side i.

1:07 pm

cybernan

when is she getting married?

1:08 pm

72 Temple Owl

i saw today a 239 one way far to london that became nearly 680nwith taxes, i could not believe there is that much tax on air travel

1:08 pm

Haz1558

She's getting married in August. 18 weeks to go, or so I was informed the other day.

1:08 pm

Haz1558

fi8 - plural of fi7 - attach twelve inches to the end of a fishy part.

It is exciting and while we'll be watching what the royals do, ours will be rather more scaled down. Still fun. And expensive!

1:10 pm

cybernan

we are flying on points and the taxes came to over $1000 -- LHR is one of the most expensive airports in the world. I guess they have to pay for terminal 5 some how!

1:10 pm

72 Temple Owl

wow

1:10 pm

Flask1

thanks Haz....and Hi to you!

1:11 pm

cathy22w

hey all

1:11 pm

Haz1558

Thankfully Terminal 5 seems to be working okay these days, it was a terrible start they had.

1:11 pm

72 Temple Owl

gee if sales taxes were still deductible here it would be a different story

1:11 pm

Haz1558

You're welcome, Flask. Did you get the list okay?

1:11 pm

cybernan

yes -- we flew in a week after it opened!

1:11 pm

cathy22w

manchester uk seems a good option, and sometimes cheaper than heathrow

1:11 pm

cathy22w

at least, on mobissimo

1:12 pm

72 Temple Owl

no wonder they had such a promotion

1:12 pm

cybernan

international flights on BA all land at LHR

1:12 pm

Flask1

I did thanks!

1:13 pm

Haz1558

Daughter got a good deal with British Airways flying return from Heathrow to JFK for £350 (not sure of dollars).

1:13 pm

Haz1558

That's good, I thought you might find it useful!

1:13 pm

cybernan

that sounds about right -- we fly out of Vancouver BC

1:13 pm

cosdem

hello all

1:14 pm

cybernan

... our airport fees and taxes are pretty hefty as well

1:14 pm

cathy22w

hi cos

1:14 pm

Haz1558

Hello, cosdem.

1:14 pm

Haz1558

PHone...

1:15 pm

72 Temple Owl

hi cos

1:15 pm

Haz1558

And back.

1:16 pm

72 Temple Owl

fo5/10 clue pls?

1:17 pm

Haz1558

fo5/16 - to force something upon someone

1:17 pm

cybernan

plural the fo 4 -- another nonsensical word

1:17 pm

bichon

there are two fo 5/16's

1:18 pm

72 Temple Owl

sorry fo5.20

1:18 pm

cybernan

are the re 6-7 real words?

1:18 pm

Haz1558

It's not nonsensical if you think of fo4/7 as a verb as in the bride's father fo5/16 the bill.

1:18 pm

uusue2

well, I don't know, cyber, how about someone who fo5/16 the bill?

1:18 pm

72 Temple Owl

nm

1:18 pm

cosdem

i need that too

1:18 pm

Haz1558

fo5/20 - beloved of Romans

1:18 pm

cybernan

something happened on the way to it

1:18 pm

cosdem

got it ty

1:18 pm

72 Temple Owl

ty. i think it is time to clean a bit.

1:19 pm

cosdem

no i didnt.. tha t was 5/16

1:19 pm

cybernan

did you see my clue cos?

1:19 pm

72 Temple Owl

they way things go today, i probably will be back in five minutes

1:19 pm

cosdem

yes thinking now... hmm

1:20 pm

cybernan

think movie or wayne and schuster skit

1:20 pm

cosdem

is the clue "something happened....."

1:20 pm

cybernan

yes -- Something happened on the way to the (roman building)

1:22 pm

cosdem

not getting it lol im slow todat

1:22 pm

cosdem

wait... i think i do but i need to figure out the word

1:23 pm

cybernan

fo + sailor's drink

1:23 pm

vashongin

i keep seeing references to a list, but i'm stuck at 37 and cannot find a list?

1:24 pm

cosdem

i knew it i knew i had the word right i didnt think it was possible but i looked at the wrogn O

1:24 pm

cosdem

thanks lol

1:25 pm

cybernan

I'm using a list posted on Gremlinn's profile.

1:25 pm

hootowl

I have FMs list

1:26 pm

cosdem

66 left.. ill list soon.

1:26 pm

hootowl

FM copie grem

1:27 pm

cybernan

click on rankings, then Ctrl f -- and you can search for the name you want

1:27 pm

vashongin

Oh thank you...got it from FM since Gremlinn is not online

1:27 pm

vashongin

thanks nan, i'll remember that for the future

1:28 pm

hootowl

and I still have it in MY profile and I'm here

1:29 pm

cybernan

r's done -- 12 to go

1:29 pm

cosdem

are there any t7? and how many t6?

1:30 pm

cosdem

i have 1 more T left. wanted to get it all b4 listing :P

1:30 pm

hootowl

i t6/18

1:30 pm

cosdem

ok i have that

1:30 pm

cosdem

i guess its either a t4 or t5

1:34 pm

cosdem

ok looked at the list.. its a to 4/4

1:34 pm

cosdem

should be easy enough

1:34 pm

cosdem

found it.. i thought i already had that... T's done

1:34 pm

hootowl

all the 4's are normal

1:35 pm

sadie52

Hello All :)

1:35 pm

uusue2

yay, cos!

1:35 pm

uusue2

Hi, Sadie!

1:36 pm

sadie52

hiya sue

1:36 pm

cosdem

missing one w.. a wo4/8 hmm

1:36 pm

cosdem

W's done.. this is why i dont like not having a list.. i keep finding words i thought i already added

1:36 pm

ChampFit

is it backwards st4/8?

1:37 pm

cosdem

yep :)

1:37 pm

uusue2

dunno but thanks for that one, champ!!

1:37 pm

ChampFit

:)

1:37 pm

cosdem

i swear i added that but i guess it was the st4/8 i added instead

1:37 pm

ChampFit

know what you mean!

1:39 pm

hootowl

7 left and off for the stores - bbl

1:40 pm

cosdem

have fun! buy me something nie

1:40 pm

cosdem

nice

1:45 pm

cosdem

50 left. time to go to the store to buy gardening stuff

1:45 pm

cosdem

bbl

1:45 pm

ChampFit

right behind ya...bbl

1:45 pm

MollyL

Ah well, it's a good thing I wasn't around when someone asked for fo5/20. I would have given the naughty clue.

1:46 pm

Calusa D

Hi all can't log on to Lickety's clues for todays puzzle. Any ideas?

1:47 pm

MollyL

No Lickety today. Go to "Who's Online" and get them from FM's profile.

1:47 pm

Calusa D

thank you!

1:47 pm

cosdem

im about to go but id like to hear the naughty clue even tho i have that :)

1:48 pm

MollyL

The magazine Cos. : P

1:48 pm

cybernan

*!* ta da *!* - thanks for the help :)

1:48 pm

cosdem

ah lol :)

1:48 pm

cosdem

ok bbl :)

1:49 pm

uusue2

yay cyber!

1:50 pm

lilliann

wtg nan!

1:50 pm

cybernan

ty - lunch then shopping, but have time to give a couple of quick clues if anyone needs one

1:50 pm

Ouwachita

how many words today?

1:50 pm

cybernan

173

1:51 pm

Ouwachita

thanks cyber

1:51 pm

lilliann

in8 please nan

1:51 pm

cybernan

in 8: opp. superior

1:52 pm

sadie52

ty ty

1:52 pm

lilliann

ty :)

1:52 pm

lilliann

i kept going the wrong way!

1:52 pm

MollyL

Everyone is going shopping. I feel left out. : (

1:53 pm

lilliann

i love your spring time flowers molly :)

1:53 pm

sadie52

i ran into store got one thing and ran back out lol

1:53 pm

jesdraggon

oogabooga

1:53 pm

cybernan

don't, molly - it is cold and miserable and I wish I didn't have to go out!

1:53 pm

lilliann

after today with the rain, cloud and wind blowing a hoolie it's very refreshing!

1:53 pm

sadie52

tis cold and miserable here also

1:54 pm

MollyL

It's pretty damp and chilly here too. I might run in Loews on the way home and see if they have pepper plants, but that is the extent of my shopping for the day.

1:54 pm

cybernan

plants!!!? -- we're about a month away from that!

1:55 pm

MollyL

Nan, I would already have them in the ground, but it's been a very chilly Spring so far.

1:55 pm

sadie52

i have to start my seeds this week

1:55 pm

lilliann

i went down to my local shop on my scooter today and nearly got blown off it! glad i had my seat belt on!lol

1:55 pm

MollyL

Oh, and oogabooga back to you Jes. Happy Friday.

1:56 pm

cybernan

The grass is just starting to turn green and the daffs and tulips are only about 3 in. out of the ground

1:57 pm

cybernan

I think it is going to be a late spring that heats up quickly resulting in stunted growth with the veggies and all the flowers blooming at once!

1:57 pm

lilliann

apparently we are in for a snowstorm at the end of this month when will and kate get married, so they are all panicking!

1:59 pm

cybernan

Children of our friends were married in June when we had a freak storm -- the photos of the couple standing near a rose tree with the snow falling all around were quite lovely

1:59 pm

jesdraggon

thanks, molly :)

1:59 pm

lilliann

i like looking out at my neighbours crocuses. he has yellow and purlpe ones(my favourite colour) and they cheer me up

1:59 pm

Flask1

why did you go on your scooter today, when you could have just jumped on your broomstick????????.....hee-hee!!

1:59 pm

cybernan

love crocuses -- so do the deer!

2:00 pm

jesdraggon

anybody got good suggestions of things to say in a letter to clients with way-out-of-date accounts to try and get them to make payments, other than "pay us, bitch, or you go to collections!" :)

2:00 pm

lilliann

ahh, but they have asked scintists to make a cloud to stop the snow/wet coming down on the cathedral and buckingham palace!

2:00 pm

cybernan

Would you prefer to pay 50% now and the balance in one month?

2:01 pm

lilliann

haha you are so funny!!!!!! NOT!!! :(

2:01 pm

cybernan

lol, lil

2:01 pm

lilliann

that's to flask by the way!!

2:01 pm

jesdraggon

i'm okay with them paying $10/month indefinitely as long as they pay something. anything is better than nothing, and if i send them to collections, i only get 60% of anything they can get.

2:01 pm

Flask1

lol.....;-)

2:01 pm

cybernan

What I suggested is what my d-i-l used to do.

2:03 pm

sammysmom

re 6/30??

2:03 pm

lilliann

it's very hard jes, especially with the way of the world at the moment and people losing their jobs. you want to help them pay their bills but also you have a job to do

2:03 pm

cybernan

or an incentive like 50% now, 50% next month and interest forgiven

2:04 pm

lilliann

and you need to live aswell

2:04 pm

cybernan

re 6: famous

2:04 pm

lilliann

can you not say, anything you have to spare is better than losing everything??

2:04 pm

Mary

hi all, does anyone have the list???

2:05 pm

lilliann

fm, hootowl i think and gremlin

2:05 pm

cybernan

I understand you accepting whatever they can do - if they declare bankruptcy you get nothing.

2:05 pm

lilliann

there may well be more mary

2:05 pm

Mary

thnx lilliann

2:05 pm

cybernan

mary - click on rankings, then ctrl f and type in the name

2:06 pm

sammysmom

thanks cyber

2:06 pm

lilliann

yw mary

2:06 pm

cybernan

yw -- must be off or I will never get the errands done :(

2:07 pm

lilliann

and FLASK stop taking the mick out of me and get on with the grid!! :)

2:07 pm

lilliann

bfn nan

2:07 pm

BabbleRabble

A report on my hammock haven:

2:07 pm

BabbleRabble

http://tinyurl.com/3g93yp3

2:07 pm

lilliann

ahh, i've always wanted a hammock, no good now tho!!:((

2:08 pm

BabbleRabble

Mine is swaying between smokestacks now.

2:14 pm

lilliann

that website doesn't work for me br, i'll find it tho :)

2:16 pm

lilliann

couldn't find it on yahoo or google

2:17 pm

lilliann

i have 2 big fir trees in the garden but still wouldn't be any good for me! :( hope you enjoy :)

2:17 pm

jesdraggon

i need to find out too, if it's possible to do a percentage adjustment for people who have a credit--i'd like to encourage that!

2:20 pm

MollyL

I send out the overdue letters for my company. I find that if you suggest you are about to turn them over to collections, they are motivated to work out a payment plan. The ones who aren't are going to end up in collections anyway.

2:20 pm

lilliann

sounds good jes, it's not easy!

2:21 pm

lilliann

the problem at the moment even if you threaten people with collections, if they can't pay, they can't pay and that's worldwide with the economy at the moment! sadly!

2:22 pm

MollyL

Yes, but some people can pay 10$ a month as opposed to the entire balance.

2:24 pm

lilliann

i agree molly but some after paying mortgages, rent etc may not be able to pay anything, depends on there circumstances!

2:25 pm

MollyL

Jes, if your deal with your collections people is that you only get 60%, try offering the customer a 25% reduction to pay off their bill. That way, you are making out better than turning them over.

2:27 pm

lilliann

my hubby was made redundant after 18 years 2 years ago. we managed...just.our mortgage was paid and our bills in full but we really struggled, there are people alot worse than us(at first we had his redundancy money to help but you get no help from the government if you get so much!)

2:28 pm

Flask1

clue for re7/32 please?

2:29 pm

lilliann

meaning because his redundancy was over the limit we had to live off that, it doesn't last long! luckily he's now self employed and is doing well at the moment, but not all people who have lost their jobs are!!

2:30 pm

lilliann

sorry hin, don't have it yet

2:32 pm

Flask1

ok

2:34 pm

jesdraggon

Luckily, my list of people who've not made any payment is pretty short. sadly, that list includes one of my employees!

2:36 pm

lilliann

oh, not good, i'm sorry to hear that jes, but seeing that you know tham can you not suggest a payment they can afford and go from there

2:37 pm

lilliann

if they can afford $5 dollars a week and then maybe increase as they can afford or a $10

2:39 pm

jesdraggon

that's what i'm planning to do with her. and a couple of the clients that have been really good, long term clients i've called personally to talk about it with.

2:39 pm

jesdraggon

mostly i'm working on a letter for the other dozen or so that i don't really know well enough to want to call and schmooze with.

2:39 pm

lilliann

it's a very difficult situation for everybody involved

2:40 pm

wht

re7. Well if they made you one you could refuse, they are trying again.

2:42 pm

lilliann

it's not easy to do this with people you know but i suppose with the ones you don't they are ashamed, and embarrassed about being in this situation...the same as ythe people you know, but atleast you can talk to them and work it out better

2:42 pm

jesdraggon

yeah; i just don't understand why so many people seem to think they should just not pay anything until they can pay the whole thing at once. that just ends up with the business they owe getting pissy, and badness on their credit history

2:43 pm

jesdraggon

any payment at all keeps the account current and lets us know they intend to do something

2:43 pm

lilliann

molly, if you are still here, i wasn't having a go at you, just letting you know how difficult it is being in that situation!

2:44 pm

lilliann

perhaps, some of them don't know that they can do that jes?

2:45 pm

jesdraggon

hopefully they will soon!

2:45 pm

jesdraggon

:)

2:45 pm

lilliann

some people can't read, write, don't like speaking on phones, talking face to face with people, embarrassed, guilty,etc

2:45 pm

lilliann

i hope so jes, not just in the US but all over the world

2:46 pm

jesdraggon

yeah, but the majority of people we do business with CAN read, write, and manage a phone.

2:46 pm

jesdraggon

And the people we have who can't (we have 3 that i know of) have someone else managing their business affairs for those reasons.

2:47 pm

Soodlebum

4 yrs ago, my world turned upside down.My husband skedaddled, leaving me with hideous debts. I got a job,and organised my money.Mortgage,food, heat & light were necessities, and paid for. Whatever was left, is being divided up and paid to my creditors on a pro-rata basis. It ain't easy, but its working!

2:47 pm

lilliann

embarressment then more than likely that they've got in that situation because of their own doing or not fault of their own!

guess for a next warning, i can use the trick the receptionist at a place i used to work did... have 'typo' in the amount owed that we say we are sending to the collections agency--people call REALLY pissed when you put an extra digit in the total. She could almost always get a payment from them after apologizing for the error and promising to fix it!

2:51 pm

jesdraggon

(No, she never actually sent the incorrect balance to a collections agence!)

2:51 pm

uusue2

ooh, that's really sneaky, jes! Probably only works once with each person, too...

2:51 pm

wht

Flask, you missed my clue. re7. If someone made you one you could refuse, they are trying again.

2:52 pm

lilliann

when i first got bad i had hardly any money coming in and owed money, not rent as i got it payed but couldn't affors to feed myself bas the money i had left over weny on my cats! it was my choice to have them do i had to look after them. my best friend would buy extra food for me and i ws so embarressed and proud that i wouldn't accept it, but she would put it in my cupboards when i was out, so i know how hard it is!

2:53 pm

lilliann

my typing sucks!!

2:53 pm

sammysmom

gu 6/27??

2:53 pm

Flask1

thanx wht!!!

2:53 pm

jesdraggon

eh. just proof it before sending anything formal, lilli! :)

2:54 pm

lilliann

but not all people are hard up, they get every benefit going and just pretend so you have to work out who is real and who is not jes!

2:54 pm

Soodlebum

It was a tricky time all right, Lilliann. Emotionally and financially. For the record, himself never came back. Last heard of in Bangkok. (He is now 55 - now THATS what I call a mid-life crisis). But the kids are still finding it difficult... :-(

2:55 pm

jesdraggon

yeah. i know at least one of the people on my list is hard up...but on the other hand, it's hard to have sympathy for someone who's broke, knows they're broke, and keeps bringing home new animals every time i hear from them!

2:56 pm

jesdraggon

if you're so in the hole you can't take care of the animals you have, STOP GETTING MORE! seems not a difficult concept to me. *sigh*

2:56 pm

lilliann

i'm sorry to hear about the bairns soodle, not surprising when they don't really understand what is going on. mmm, certainly sounds like a midlife crisis on his behalf!!

2:58 pm

Soodlebum

They were 12, 15 & 16 when he vamoosed - difficult ages at the best of times. But they great kids, and are weathering the storm. They can never be accused of being spoilt kids!!

2:59 pm

lilliann

i didn't get more animals, i already had 1 rescue cat and then my brother went to fight in iraq so i had his so i couldn't give them up as they'd had a crap life already, so my billes got paid, i contacted all the places i owed, as in credit card, gas/electric and paid so much every month, anfd i went without, not totally but really struggled, but we had a roof over our head and warmth!

3:01 pm

jesdraggon

yes, I'm not saying these people should ditch all their animals, lilli--i'm just saying that in this situation, you did not go out and bring home 3 new dogs. or breed the one you had. This woman did exactly that, on both counts. Meanwhile, she's convincing local rescues to pay some of her bills.

3:02 pm

lilliann

sorry jes, just reread your post! i'll get off my high horse now. i thought you were talking about me! people who are really struggling and then have more pets and children need to be shaken!!

3:02 pm

jesdraggon

as if the rescues have nothing better to do?

3:03 pm

lilliann

well she's out of order. even when i had no money i couldn't get to see a vet free or get free treatment for my animals, so i went without again!

3:04 pm

ivesy3

fo 5/20 plz

3:04 pm

lilliann

fo5 is a bit like tghis, what we chat on

3:05 pm

lilliann

*this

3:05 pm

jesdraggon

thanks for the fo, lilli :)

3:05 pm

lilliann

sorry, fingers really hurting today! typing crap!

3:05 pm

lilliann

yw jes

3:06 pm

jesdraggon

yeah. i get very very frustrated with people who whinge about how expensive i am (and i'm the least expensive in the county, thankyewverymuch), and then keep coming in with new animals! personal responsibility, people!

3:06 pm

ivesy3

ty liliann

3:06 pm

uusue2

p.s. wht, I did get your clue for the re7, thanks!

3:07 pm

lilliann

i wasn't having a go at you personally jes. you do a fantastic job, and without people like you, alot of animals would suffer

3:08 pm

jesdraggon

i know, lilli. i'm just venting here so that i can turn around and write a reasonably civil letter without mentioning this stuff to the actual client ;)

3:08 pm

lilliann

and at the end of the day you need the money to help care for others. i take my hat off to you for what you do and what you have to put up with :)

3:09 pm

lilliann

if they care for their animals they will reply that they will try and pay what they can!(hopefully)

3:09 pm

jesdraggon

thanks for letting me blow off some steam! back in a bit, appointment just got here...

3:09 pm

lilliann

ok

3:13 pm

ivesy3

fr 6/33 plz

3:16 pm

lilliann

fr6, nearly opp of to cost and nearly whenyou fell pins and needles

3:16 pm

lilliann

*feel

3:17 pm

firefly779

lillian - if I may ask, whom was it that passed that you are leaving your gnome up for? I've been sporadic here at best, but have played for some years.

3:18 pm

ivesy3

ty liliann!

3:20 pm

lilliann

not sure what you are asking firefly. no one has passed, well not recently!

3:21 pm

uusue2

ok, off to department colloquium, bbl

3:21 pm

lilliann

ohh, you mean nancy boy! i said that i wsn't getting rid of my icon when i heard he had passed as he always said it made him smole!

3:22 pm

lilliann

*smile

3:22 pm

lilliann

bfn sue

3:23 pm

wht

Fireworks

3:23 pm

cosdem

ohh that is sooooo awesome lilli

3:23 pm

firefly779

Nancy Boy - oh no! What happened??

3:23 pm

cosdem

i sure miss talking to NB

3:23 pm

cosdem

wtg wht!

3:24 pm

lilliann

he died of liver failure after having a transplant after getting malaria on holiday

3:24 pm

cosdem

i finally get the fe6/33 clue lol took me a while

3:25 pm

lilliann

he suffered complications

3:26 pm

lilliann

everyone had candles cos and i would have done so too but he liked my icon , so i kept it

3:26 pm

firefly779

oh my goodness! that's terrible! Thank you for letting me know - it's always sad to see a member go. We should have a memoriam link on here somewhere for those that have left us. :)

3:26 pm

cosdem

i think there is a link on annnoymous for NB

3:27 pm

firefly779

I think Dr. God should have one here that is for all the members that have passed.

3:27 pm

lilliann

i think there is one, either on babblers anonymous or maybe angelsongs babble page?

omg i think ur the only person in the world who does not know who betty white is

3:45 pm

Mom

both please, I have 0 G words

3:46 pm

lilliann

yay wtg flask! you've been quick today! nite hin :)

3:46 pm

Mom

Hi Peri

3:46 pm

Flask1

I dont know either!!!

3:46 pm

cosdem

one lives in a magical lamp, change the last vowel

3:46 pm

wht

ge5.14, residents of a lamp

3:46 pm

cosdem

the queen of television

3:46 pm

Mom

I tried that and it told me it wasn't in the puzzle Wht, and hello

3:46 pm

cosdem

the other one is... same first 3 letters, plus **se red.

3:47 pm

Mom

ah, spelled it wrong

3:47 pm

Mom

thanks Cos

3:47 pm

Mom

thanks Wht

3:47 pm

wht

Hi mom

3:48 pm

wht

The next is ge4,7

3:48 pm

lilliann

hi peri, atleast it hasn't stopped which is a good thing!

3:48 pm

lilliann

hi wht

3:48 pm

wht

Starts the same.

3:48 pm

Mom

thanks again Wht

3:48 pm

wht

Then there is a ge4,8

3:49 pm

wht

And then, if your monkeys are working well, they tell me that the ge6,27 is a kind of monkey

3:49 pm

wht

Oops That is a gu6,27

3:51 pm

cosdem

and the gu7 is the sound a ri5 makes

3:51 pm

Mom

got the ge 4/8 thanks

3:52 pm

cosdem

mu6 please?

3:53 pm

Mom

sorry Cos, I don't have it

3:53 pm

periwinkle

rats, 61 left

3:53 pm

flosey

cos, sounds like the drops you might use in your eyes?

3:53 pm

flosey

different spelling

3:53 pm

periwinkle

this grid is makingme cross

3:54 pm

cosdem

hmmm

3:54 pm

flosey

mu + re4

3:54 pm

cosdem

hahhh thanks

3:54 pm

flosey

yw

3:55 pm

Mom

thanks Flosey

3:55 pm

cosdem

i was close.. mixed up the last 3 letters

3:55 pm

flosey

yw mom

3:55 pm

flosey

ah, so you are familiar with the drops - wondered if it would have a different name in US

3:56 pm

periwinkle

fo5/20 pls

3:56 pm

periwinkle

58 left and no gray columns

3:57 pm

flosey

fo - assembly, meeting place

3:57 pm

periwinkle

sheesh, ty flosey

3:57 pm

lilliann

a bit like here peri, where we chat

3:57 pm

flosey

yw peri

3:57 pm

periwinkle

got it lil, ty

3:57 pm

flosey

I'm missing re6, any clues please?

3:58 pm

lilliann

i noticed peri :)

3:58 pm

flosey

yes lil, this is a great fo6

3:58 pm

wht

an fo5,20 is a place you might encounter a fu5,18.

3:58 pm

lilliann

famous flosey?

3:58 pm

JaxH

re6 noted, famous

3:58 pm

lilliann

i already had it flosey :)

3:58 pm

flosey

tyty lil, got it and fireworks

3:59 pm

wht

wtg flosey

3:59 pm

flosey

and Jax, thanks

3:59 pm

lilliann

yay, wtg flosey!!

3:59 pm

periwinkle

bbs

3:59 pm

Mom

congrats Flosey

3:59 pm

lilliann

bfn peri

3:59 pm

cosdem

i dont get the re6/30 clue

3:59 pm

flosey

ty everyone for clues and chat, must get going, have shopping to do

4:00 pm

Mom

bye Peri

4:00 pm

Mom

bye bye Flosey, have a good day

4:00 pm

lilliann

mom, i'm going to try the banana bread with morgan on sunday so will let you know :)

4:00 pm

flosey

re + cons. + something you have that belongs to YOU

4:00 pm

lilliann

bye flosey, tc and enjoy shopping

4:01 pm

cosdem

ah duh.. thanks :)

4:01 pm

flosey

ow cos, glad you got it!

4:01 pm

flosey

ow!! ***yw

4:01 pm

Mom

oh please do, Lilliann

4:01 pm

Mom

I also wrote to you last night. You package is on its way

4:02 pm

flosey

and bfn all, be back for flip

4:02 pm

lilliann

i hate bananas but will let you know whether she likes it or not, and boy will she tell you!! typical geordie!! lol

4:02 pm

jeffrey rodgers

hey

4:02 pm

lilliann

tc flosey

4:02 pm

lilliann

hi jeff

4:03 pm

Mom

I am anxious to hear

4:03 pm

Mom

Hi Jeffrey

4:03 pm

cosdem

how bout the re7?

4:03 pm

lilliann

in other words, if she has something to say she will!!!

4:03 pm

Mom

thanks Cos and Wht for the G clues

4:03 pm

lilliann

so am i, we might do it wrong!! :(

4:03 pm

Mom

that is what they are suppose to do, Lilliann

4:04 pm

Glantarell

Noswaith dda pawb - evening all

4:04 pm

jeffrey rodgers

hey mom and lilliann

4:04 pm

Glantarell

re7 - if somebody makes you one that you can refuse, they may try again

4:04 pm

Mom

Good evening Glantarell

4:04 pm

Glantarell

Hi Mom

4:04 pm

Mom

nah, I don't think so Lillliann

4:04 pm

lilliann

noswaith dda pawb to you to glant

4:04 pm

lilliann

how is life, hopefully better for you?

4:04 pm

Mom

thanks Glantarell

4:04 pm

cosdem

ah thanks : glan :)

4:05 pm

Glantarell

Uh, not yet :-)

4:05 pm

Mom

100 down ... time to start supper. ((Hugs)) to all of you

4:05 pm

lilliann

geordies do mom!i've learnt the hard way!! lol

4:05 pm

Mom

((glantarell))

4:05 pm

Glantarell

But the estate agent came this morning and measured the house, will come and take photos on the next sunny day so i am hopeful it will sell and I can get on with life

4:05 pm

Mom

:-) ((Lilliann))

4:05 pm

lilliann

bye mom, enjoy supper. and tc.big hugs.xx

4:06 pm

Glantarell

Bye Mom

4:06 pm

Glantarell

This grid is not very friendly - found lots of words it won;t accept!

4:06 pm

wht

Well, I am off. Happy Babbling

4:07 pm

cosdem

R's done.

4:07 pm

Glantarell

Bye wht

4:07 pm

lilliann

half my family are geordies and then i married into one and have a child...yay!! not good being english, welsh and geordie! lol

4:07 pm

lilliann

bye wht, tc

4:07 pm

periwinkle

what is geordie?

4:08 pm

lilliann

someone from newcastle

4:08 pm

Glantarell

it is a person from a specific area in the north east of England

4:08 pm

Glantarell

they speak with very broad accents

4:08 pm

periwinkle

ok

4:08 pm

lilliann

or nearby

4:10 pm

lilliann

luckily i understand them!my daughter is quite broad as she was born up here, not newcastle tho. my hubby has more of a southern geordie twang as he lived down south for alot of years but get broader the longer we're here

4:11 pm

lilliann

i don't speak welsh glant but use to come back with a welsh accent when we stopped with my grandparents in wales when my brother and i was younger, but that was south wales

4:11 pm

periwinkle

I am sutck in the f words and not happy

4:11 pm

cosdem

the first fr5 please?

4:11 pm

lilliann

hopefully everyhting will go well with the house glant. is ex still there?

4:11 pm

cosdem

i have 4 more F words.

4:11 pm

Glantarell

not sure if it's the first but that cold ice crystal that appears on cold nights

4:12 pm

Kaplan the Magne

F words are bad.

4:12 pm

Glantarell

Ex is still here Lilliann - I am living in my room

4:12 pm

JaxH

How many f words are there?

4:12 pm

lilliann

fr and mineral

4:12 pm

cosdem

no i have that one thats not the first

4:12 pm

cosdem

frore

4:12 pm

cosdem

oh damn sorry

4:12 pm

lilliann

yay cos!!

4:12 pm

lilliann

lol

4:12 pm

Glantarell

ty cos

4:12 pm

Kaplan the Magne

A funny thing happened on the way to one of them.

4:13 pm

lilliann

oh, sorry it's not

4:13 pm

cosdem

ty lill and yw glan lol

4:13 pm

Glantarell

26 f words

4:13 pm

cosdem

and the last fr6? the fr 6/39 ?

4:13 pm

JaxH

Only another 7 f's to get then!

4:14 pm

Kaplan the Magne

I have 25 of them!

4:14 pm

lilliann

fr-nearly opp of to pay and when you get pins and needles, nearly

4:14 pm

Kaplan the Magne

that's the one I don't have!

4:14 pm

cosdem

i hasve that one

4:14 pm

cosdem

thats the fr 6/33 i need the fr 6/39

4:14 pm

Kaplan the Magne

that's the 33.

4:14 pm

lilliann

add letter to the 5

4:15 pm

Glantarell

TY Liliann

4:15 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Bingo!

4:15 pm

lilliann

yw glant

4:15 pm

Kaplan the Magne

No- I am still missing some f's. I must have counted wrong.

4:15 pm

periwinkle

50 left snd still no gray columns

4:15 pm

Glantarell

which letter do I add to the 5?

4:15 pm

cosdem

ty lilli! F's done!

4:16 pm

cosdem

u have 3 options Glan :P

4:16 pm

Glantarell

i thought i'd tried them all cos!

4:16 pm

lilliann

can't tell you that or i'll go in pb glant:(

4:17 pm

lilliann

yw cos

4:17 pm

Kaplan the Magne

I'm confused- I count 24 f words on my list, but the stats say I am missing 5 of them. And I'm too tired to figure out the descrepancy.

4:17 pm

Kaplan the Magne

13+13 do make 26, don't they?

4:17 pm

cosdem

32 F's

4:17 pm

lilliann

after the 5 to do with eyebrows glant

4:17 pm

cosdem

there are 3 F tiles

4:17 pm

ChampFit

then there's the bottom F that has 6

4:18 pm

cosdem

30 F's not 32.

4:18 pm

lilliann

there all have the high point tile

4:18 pm

ChampFit

13+13+6

4:18 pm

Kaplan the Magne

I have 26. Oh, right, there are the bottom 6. Thanks.

4:19 pm

Glantarell

not sure i have the one for eyebrows but do have the facial expression if it's the same thing

4:19 pm

Kaplan the Magne

I just monkeyed one.

4:19 pm

cosdem

si7 please?

4:19 pm

lilliann

yes glant

4:20 pm

lilliann

i was just thinking when i do it, my eyebrows move down! lol

4:20 pm

cosdem

ugh i added wrong sorry lo l 32 yes

4:20 pm

periwinkle

ri6/36 pls

4:21 pm

lilliann

don't have the si7 yet cos, sorry

4:21 pm

Kaplan the Magne

ri6 36- not Snapple.

4:21 pm

lilliann

sounds like the gun but add another cons

4:21 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Sorry- that's a lousy clue.

4:21 pm

periwinkle

ty lil, new word for me

4:22 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Combine those clues and see where you end up.

4:22 pm

periwinkle

finally, bottom row gray

4:22 pm

lilliann

and the person doing it for 7

4:22 pm

ChampFit

Kap, that WAS a stretch!

4:22 pm

ChampFit

:)

4:22 pm

lilliann

yw peri, me too

4:22 pm

periwinkle

another break, bbs

4:22 pm

cosdem

not getting the si7 clue

4:22 pm

lilliann

ttfn peri

4:23 pm

lilliann

is there an si clue?

4:23 pm

Kaplan the Magne

I don't have it.

4:23 pm

Glantarell

i'm not sure we'd get it Lil - it was a US drink reference

4:24 pm

lilliann

they were all ri6 clues i think cos! :)

4:24 pm

cosdem

no wonder i wasnt getting it

4:24 pm

cosdem

you said add another cons. i thoguht u meant cosd lol

4:24 pm

lilliann

oh ok glant

4:24 pm

lilliann

no, that was the ri6

4:25 pm

lilliann

sorry :(

4:25 pm

cosdem

lol yeah

4:25 pm

Kaplan the Magne

I'm SO confused!

4:25 pm

Glantarell

me too!

4:25 pm

hockey

get real

4:25 pm

Yvo

si is a ood piece of meat

4:25 pm

lilliann

all the clues below kap i think are for the ri6,36/7,52

4:25 pm

ChampFit

WOW!!! ty

4:25 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Ahhhh

4:26 pm

Glantarell

TY Yvo

4:26 pm

cosdem

ty but not getting it yet ;( lol appreciate the clue tho

4:26 pm

cosdem

OH

4:26 pm

lilliann

omg, slap me witht he fish!! tyvm yvo

4:26 pm

cosdem

now i do :) tyvm S's done

4:26 pm

Glantarell

makes a nice traditional brit roast dinner

4:27 pm

Yvo

you welcome i dont do this very often ,but im having one tonite

4:27 pm

lilliann

if you have money glant, i have a cheap bit of beef!! lol

4:27 pm

Glantarell

I don't eat beef or dairy products Lil

4:28 pm

Kaplan the Magne

If you got the money honey I got the time- is that a song?

4:28 pm

Glantarell

Welsh lamb - well, that's another matter - but I'd need to take a mortgage out it's so expensive

4:28 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Ah, a vegan!

4:28 pm

lilliann

i had reast chicken tonight with loads of veg and a yorkshire pudding, skipped tatties as i had yorkshire, as hubby working away and bairn at her grandads for a couple of nights!

4:28 pm

cosdem

anyone have the ni6?

4:29 pm

Kaplan the Magne

When my oldest daughter was about 7 she told a teenager's mom that her kid was a virgin.

4:29 pm

lilliann

welsh lamb is expensive but very tasty so it the lamb bred up here on the moors!

4:29 pm

Kaplan the Magne

The mom said "really?" and the eyebrows went up.

4:29 pm

lynxxx

Your nose ia a sni**** - or is that ni****

4:29 pm

Glantarell

is that a clue kap or just a very random thought? :-)

4:29 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Yes, my daughter said. She doesn't eat any milk or meat.

4:30 pm

lynxxx

Morning everyone

4:30 pm

lilliann

lol kap

4:30 pm

Glantarell

Moning Lyn

4:30 pm

lilliann

hi lyn

4:30 pm

Kaplan the Magne

It was funny- and I can still embarrass her with that story.

4:30 pm

Yvo

niffler

4:30 pm

Kaplan the Magne

If I so choose.

4:30 pm

cosdem

i guess noone has the ni6 its my last N

4:30 pm

lynxxx

I clued it Cos

4:31 pm

lilliann

either your daughter was beyond years or her mam was a bit thick!

4:31 pm

Kaplan the Magne

careful, YVO, careful...

4:31 pm

cosdem

oh i thuoght u were just talking randomly lol thank you

4:32 pm

Kaplan the Magne

No- my daughter MEANT to say Vegan, Lil- she mixed up the words.

4:32 pm

lilliann

when i was younger, about 6 i think i was on the bus with my mam and saw a nun and said to my mam their's a god mother, my mam kept looking around thinking my godmothers weren't there and then she realzed who i was looking at

4:32 pm

Kaplan the Magne

I never talk randomly, Cos. How could you think that?

4:32 pm

Glantarell

aaah! light bulb moment Kap!

4:32 pm

cosdem

lynx i was talking to :P

4:33 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Oh, of course. It couldn't have been me.

4:33 pm

Glantarell

but i didn't understand Lyn's clue

4:33 pm

lilliann

oh i see kap! :)

4:33 pm

Kaplan the Magne

This is the most confusing chogchat I have seen in a while.

4:34 pm

cosdem

if u s**** a flower, ur a s******

4:34 pm

Yvo

thats the reason i dont clue cause i dont move the curser sorry about that,

4:34 pm

lilliann

i think because we are talking about different things and clueing!

4:34 pm

lilliann

don't be silly yvo, any clue is wanted!

4:35 pm

Glantarell

TY cos - i had managed to try to get an'l' into it!

4:35 pm

cosdem

i did the same glan :)

4:36 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Let's start over. Good evening everyone!

4:36 pm

Kaplan the Magne

I have 126 words and still don't have NBT!

4:36 pm

Glantarell

i still have 2 blank tiles - the bottom left I and the ight hand O

4:36 pm

Glantarell

83 words left

4:36 pm

cosdem

7 left.

4:37 pm

Kaplan the Magne

I don't have the bottom right e either- or a left hand i.

4:37 pm

Glantarell

good going cos - this is a piggy gid

4:37 pm

lynxxx

or4.4

4:37 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Go Cos go!

4:37 pm

lynxxx

el5.16 pixie-like

4:37 pm

Glantarell

bottom right e - a particular look in some women, related to small fantasy creatures el3

4:38 pm

cosdem

er7 please?

4:38 pm

Glantarell

TY Lyn

4:38 pm

lilliann

something that has rusted cos

4:38 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Oh- like Audrey Hepburn. Or would that be gamine?

4:39 pm

Glantarell

yes i think so Kap

4:39 pm

lilliann

but not pt obviously

4:40 pm

cosdem

ty lilli!

4:40 pm

Glantarell

don't get it

4:40 pm

lilliann

yw cos

4:40 pm

lynxxx

TY Lill

4:40 pm

cosdem

2 left.

4:40 pm

lilliann

something that has worn away glant

4:40 pm

lilliann

yw lynn

4:40 pm

Glantarell

ty Lil

4:40 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Whoo, Cos---you are almost there

4:41 pm

lilliann

yw glant

4:41 pm

cosdem

1 left and its a 7 ugh

4:41 pm

cosdem

fireworks.

4:41 pm

cosdem

last word was of7

4:41 pm

Glantarell

woo hoo cos

4:41 pm

lynxxx

Congrats Cos!

4:41 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Congrats Cos.

4:42 pm

lilliann

yay, wtg cos!!

4:42 pm

cosdem

fun grid i liked it

4:42 pm

lilliann

i have 3 7's left!

4:42 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Yeah- now you say that.

4:43 pm

lilliann

i don't like it!!

4:43 pm

cosdem

it didnt make my head hurt actually like some grids do

4:43 pm

Glantarell

I have 6 7s left...

4:43 pm

cosdem

donald trump is joining fox news

4:43 pm

cosdem

"Monday Mornings with Trump"

4:44 pm

Kaplan the Magne

I have many fours left.

4:44 pm

lilliann

no, i must admit, it wasn't a headachy one like some of them this week but i've had to take more breaks!

4:44 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Must be a tankful of fish.

4:44 pm

lilliann

i have 23 left

4:44 pm

Glantarell

I wish Lickety had listed

4:44 pm

Kaplan the Magne

I'm so tankful.

4:44 pm

Kaplan the Magne

We are listless.

4:45 pm

lilliann

so do i glant, it is alot easier and quicker, bless him

4:45 pm

Glantarell

I am listless in eevry sense of the word at the moment LOL

4:45 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Do people who donate aquariums- (aquaria??) give tanks?

4:45 pm

lynxxx

I just emailed him to let him know there was an extra word yesterday. Apparently his list won't work until he resets it after there is an extra word

4:46 pm

ivesy3

no 5/10 plz

4:46 pm

lilliann

fm was saying we were listless because of the extra word added to the list yesterday, that lickey had to do reset it or something

4:46 pm

Kaplan the Magne

The big fish said to the little fish "we have so much to be tankful for."

4:46 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Sorry.

4:46 pm

lilliann

snap lynn :)

4:46 pm

lynxxx

no5.10 rhymes with Mt Karloff

4:47 pm

lynxxx

Mr not Mt

4:47 pm

lilliann

glant, fm has one on her profile

4:47 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Seaweed.

4:47 pm

ivesy3

tyvm!

4:47 pm

Kaplan the Magne

So you are all just ignoring me. Where's Ruru?

4:48 pm

Glantarell

I am tying to think up some non tank related witty repartee but I am failing

4:48 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Tanks a lot.

4:49 pm

foamflower

hi, folks--down to two that i need help on--of7/32 and an no4/4 that someone sd was Japanese seaweed, but that did not help me...

4:49 pm

lilliann

sorry kap, i wasn't ignoring you, ....in fell of my chair laughing so hard i couldn't get back to the computor!! :))

4:49 pm

Glantarell

edible japanese seaweed

4:49 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Yeah, right.

4:49 pm

lilliann

NOT!! lol

4:49 pm

lilliann

hi foam

4:50 pm

Glantarell

of7 - is the person who makes the of5 you can't refuse

4:50 pm

foamflower

:) that doesn't help either, glant

4:50 pm

Glantarell

do you have the french word for black?

4:50 pm

MollyL

no + chicken and **ce

4:50 pm

Glantarell

reverse the last two letters

4:51 pm

foamflower

thx, glant, that did it for the of--never considered that spelling

4:51 pm

foamflower

oh, I DO have the Japanese seaweed

4:51 pm

lilliann

neither did we foam and we are brits!

4:51 pm

Glantarell

good, now pl it

4:51 pm

foamflower

let's see--not black, not clock time, not seaweed, and not the opposite of "thens"

4:52 pm

Glantarell

not seaweed pl

4:52 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Close to the last one you said- just ends with a different consonant

4:52 pm

Glantarell

clock time?

4:53 pm

foamflower

got that one too

4:53 pm

MollyL

Midday

4:53 pm

lilliann

pl seaweed

4:53 pm

Glantarell

oh i had that

4:53 pm

uusue2

hi all, I am back from colloquium

4:53 pm

Kaplan the Magne

what I just said- or like little salamander, change the vowel.

4:53 pm

foamflower

got the pllural seaweed too

4:53 pm

lynxxx

no4.8 a british slang way of saying nothing

4:53 pm

lynxxx

hi Sue

4:53 pm

lilliann

is it plural of the nothern english for nothing

4:54 pm

uusue2

now my head is full of talk about topological insulators and Majorana neutrinos

4:54 pm

Kaplan the Magne

My clue at 4:53

4:54 pm

lilliann

high tile used

4:54 pm

Glantarell

TY Lill - i didn't think it had a pl :-)

4:54 pm

lilliann

yw glant

4:54 pm

Glantarell

i wouldn;t know what a opological insulator was if i tripped over it

4:55 pm

MollyL

Neutrinos! Ole!

4:55 pm

Glantarell

or a Majorana neutrino - medical?

4:55 pm

lilliann

foam the no4/5 sounds like the twit twoo bird

4:55 pm

Glantarell

or physics?

4:55 pm

uusue2

physics. My PhD thesis actually involved neutrinos.

4:56 pm

lilliann

but means nothing in northern english speech

4:56 pm

Glantarell

i stopped physics aged 12

4:56 pm

MollyL

Twit two bird????

4:56 pm

lilliann

but replace the l for another letter

4:56 pm

foamflower

now my head is spinning--it's an no 4/4 i'm missing--not black, not midday and not seaweed

4:56 pm

Kaplan the Magne

I CLUED IT ALREADY AT 4:53!

4:56 pm

lilliann

big eyes and are barn ones and snowy ones molly

4:57 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Sorry for shouting.

4:57 pm

MollyL

no + don't get *e* in the rain, and plural

4:57 pm

Glantarell

opposite of thens?

4:57 pm

foamflower

SORRY--had brain spin at that clock time--will revisit now

4:57 pm

Kaplan the Magne

I am beginning to think I am invisible.

4:57 pm

lilliann

no4 is pt of when

4:57 pm

Glantarell

Not inviible Kap

4:57 pm

MollyL

I see you Yetta

4:57 pm

Glantarell

invincible more likely

4:57 pm

ChampFit

I got it from your clue Kap!!!

4:57 pm

Kaplan the Magne

4:53, guys!

4:58 pm

godthaab

Uusue2, I just finished reading "Decoding Reality" by Vlatko Vedral. Have you read that?

4:58 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Individual.

4:58 pm

MollyL

Pssst...what if she doesn't know what a little salamadar is...

4:58 pm

uusue2

I see kap too :-)

4:58 pm

lilliann

sorry kap, chat moving quick and i'm getting sidetracked with babble and film

4:58 pm

lilliann

yopu're wanted and needed kap! :)

4:58 pm

Kaplan the Magne

That's OK- Yetta gets a little cranky.

4:58 pm

lilliann

*you're

4:58 pm

foamflower

NOT the 4:53 clue--isn't that for an no 4/8?

4:59 pm

uusue2

I have not, godthaab, what did you think of it?

4:59 pm

Kaplan the Magne

I think I am going to shoot myself.

4:59 pm

MollyL

Foam, I thought you were looking for an no4.

5:00 pm

foamflower

I am--an no4/4

5:00 pm

godthaab

Very good. He talks about information being physical. The neat thing is, which I never thought about, is that information is the concept that we have that can manifest itself from nothing. He talks a lot about quantum physics, amongst other things, that make this true.

5:01 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Black- daytime- seaweed-zero...

5:01 pm

godthaab

..the only concept..

5:01 pm

Glantarell

zero?

5:01 pm

ivesy3

ri 5/10 plz

5:01 pm

uusue2

Interesting, godthaab, I'll have to check it out! (maybe this summer, the semester is driving me nuts)

5:01 pm

MollyL

Not any Glant

5:01 pm

lilliann

yes it's the northern english word gor nothing

5:01 pm

godthaab

Well worth the read.

5:01 pm

Glantarell

Doh doh doh doh doh

5:02 pm

uusue2

incidentally, kap, todays featured article in Physics Today is How to Shout Without Anyone Hearing. Just thought you'd want to know :-)

5:02 pm

MollyL

French black, not any, midday, seaweed

5:02 pm

godthaab

What is Physics Today?

5:02 pm

lilliann

here and no**

5:03 pm

foamflower

well, folks, this is a classic AARGHHH--it's the "nothing" word i was missing

5:03 pm

MollyL

*Gets the Jer-Dan, we may have to tow this one out*

5:03 pm

lilliann

what is the stats foam?

5:03 pm

Glantarell

foam - as I said - doh

5:03 pm

Kaplan the Magne

I haven't caught up with Physics Yesterday. A guy on NPR the other day said all the existing physics textbooks are now out of date.

5:03 pm

foamflower

after a kazillion futile attempts at stuff like noor, nool, nosi, nois....

5:03 pm

lilliann

and do you have the 5,18 after it

5:03 pm

uusue2

monthly magazine from the American Physical Society, godthaab, they put out e-mail updates weekly

5:03 pm

Kaplan the Magne

And so am I.

5:04 pm

godthaab

Interesting.

5:04 pm

foamflower

and that, folks, means the bright display--thank you so much for your help and patience!

5:04 pm

foamflower

Have only a few more minutes--can i return the favor?

5:04 pm

Glantarell

woo hoo foam

5:04 pm

lynxxx

Congrats Foam!

5:04 pm

Kaplan the Magne

I have too many left.

5:04 pm

uusue2

yay, foam!

5:05 pm

Glantarell

anything for the bottom left I

5:05 pm

lilliann

sotty kap, but i'm not into physics, never understood it at school and still dont:(

5:05 pm

uusue2

here's the link to the article, godthaab: http://focus.aps.org/story/v27/st13

5:05 pm

periwinkle

34 keft, I am getting closer fireworks

5:05 pm

lilliann

yay, wtg foam!!

5:05 pm

periwinkle

left even

5:05 pm

godthaab

Thank you!

5:05 pm

Kaplan the Magne

35 for me.

5:05 pm

lynxxx

hi Peri

5:05 pm

Jillyjill

Anyone have a list?

5:05 pm

periwinkle

FM has one

5:05 pm

lynxxx

Grem/FM

5:05 pm

foamflower

hmm--have the i's but will have to think about which one comers from there

5:06 pm

lilliann

fm, hootowl and gremlin

5:06 pm

periwinkle

hi lyn

5:06 pm

uusue2

I'm looking at a list from hootowl, peri

5:06 pm

lilliann

wb peri

5:06 pm

lilliann

wb lynn

5:06 pm

Glantarell

Hi Peri

5:06 pm

lilliann

hi sue

5:06 pm

foamflower

maybe this? i + place to find ore and I + same think, different last letter

5:07 pm

lilliann

they are acids glant

5:07 pm

Glantarell

same think?

5:07 pm

MollyL

I thought Glant asked for the bottom left L

5:08 pm

Kallia

hello All

5:08 pm

foamflower

bottom left L? There's only one and it's on the right

5:08 pm

Kallia

back for last 36

5:08 pm

lilliann

or one is an acid and the other one where you're family have gone to get coal

5:08 pm

Glantarell

Hi Kallia - 73 left and not going to fionish

5:08 pm

Kallia

what giving up lol

5:08 pm

Glantarell

bottom left i

5:08 pm

Kallia

hows you?

5:09 pm

Glantarell

fed up

5:09 pm

foamflower

that l = a word more commonly seen with a vowell in front of it or one with a vowel at the end of it

5:09 pm

Kallia

anything happened or just usual?

5:09 pm

Glantarell

got the mining one

5:09 pm

MollyL

See Lilliann's clue about where you go to get coal. Then change the last vowel to another vowel.

5:09 pm

foamflower

good, glant! not just noodle that last letter

5:10 pm

Glantarell

didn;t do chemistry or physics and there is no amino in this grid LOL

5:10 pm

Kallia

nope change the first vowel of that

5:10 pm

foamflower

but i gotta scoot--again, thx, all!

5:10 pm

lilliann

if6,36, something thats not right

5:10 pm

MollyL

Almost Glant. Change the first vowel.

5:10 pm

uusue2

no but if you switch the first vowel you will find a word that IS in the grid, glan :-)

5:10 pm

Glantarell

TY Molly

5:10 pm

uusue2

bye, foam!

5:10 pm

Glantarell

and sue and kallia

5:10 pm

Glantarell

bye foam

5:10 pm

Kallia

lol

5:11 pm

lilliann

i did say acid and mine

5:11 pm

Glantarell

i don't have either 8

5:11 pm

Glantarell

sorry Lill - you did and that started me off

5:11 pm

Glantarell

so thank you

5:11 pm

Kallia

in8

5:12 pm

lilliann

nite foam

5:12 pm

Kallia

not superior

5:12 pm

Glantarell

TY Kallia

5:12 pm

Kallia

and part of a fish + 12 inches

5:13 pm

lilliann

no need to apologise glant, i didn't know if people had seen it, sorry 8i'm tired like the rest of us brits probably! :)

5:13 pm

Kallia

pl for the 8

5:13 pm

Glantarell

got the fish Kallia but that's a 7

5:13 pm

Glantarell

TY Kallia

5:13 pm

Kallia

see below

5:13 pm

lilliann

pl glant

5:14 pm

lilliann

hi kallia

5:14 pm

Glantarell

strange word

5:14 pm

Kallia

hi lil

5:14 pm

lilliann

alot of them are today!!

5:14 pm

Kallia

have you got gu7?

5:15 pm

Glantarell

yes i am not enjoying this grid at all

5:15 pm

lilliann

me?

5:15 pm

Glantarell

yes i have gu7

5:15 pm

Kallia

either of you

5:15 pm

lilliann

do you want it kallia?

5:15 pm

Kallia

no got it thanks

5:15 pm

lilliann

yes kallia i have it

5:15 pm

Glantarell

it's the noise an ri5 makes

5:16 pm

Kallia

trying to help Glan and you lol

5:16 pm

lilliann

ahh ty kallia.:)

5:16 pm

Kallia

have you got the double lettered gun?

5:16 pm

lilliann

19 left

5:16 pm

Glantarell

do you have the re7 and ri7 Kallia - I can help if you don;t

5:16 pm

lilliann

yes thanks

5:16 pm

Glantarell

yes

5:16 pm

lilliann

that was an odd one

5:17 pm

Glantarell

I think it's actually a small machine you put paper or thin metal through and it sort of pleats it

5:17 pm

Kallia

have the ri no re though...giz a clue

5:17 pm

lilliann

ahhh, yes, i should know that being a paper crafter!!! arghhh!!

5:17 pm

Glantarell

if somebosy made you an of5 and you refused it what would they do?

5:18 pm

Glantarell

an of5 you couldn;t refuse?

5:18 pm

lilliann

the famous one?

5:18 pm

Kallia

reoffer

5:18 pm

Glantarell

famous one is a 6

5:18 pm

Kallia

oops.....

5:18 pm

Glantarell

yes Kallia

5:18 pm

lilliann

changer the last vowel

5:18 pm

periwinkle

11

5:18 pm

Glantarell

nice choclit in the PB

5:18 pm

lilliann

oh, so it is glant, sorry

5:19 pm

Kallia

slinks of to the PB

5:19 pm

lilliann

who for me glant?

5:19 pm

Glantarell

no for Kallia

5:19 pm

lilliann

oh, no kallia

5:19 pm

lilliann

snap!!

5:20 pm

Kallia

LOL mad, the lost of us

5:20 pm

Glantarell

68 and too tired to carry on, mayb I'll do better tomorrow - I get the day to myself - woo hoo

5:20 pm

periwinkle

re6 pls

5:20 pm

Glantarell

and as my house is spotless and tidy I can have fun in my craft room

5:20 pm

uusue2

ok, I have just successfully demonstrated that it is possible to boil an ENTIRE cup of coffee out into the microwave. Grrrr.

5:21 pm

lilliann

we surely are kallia!babble has made us so!!! :(((

5:21 pm

Glantarell

if somebody is famous they are re6ed

5:21 pm

Kallia

maybe give you a ring

5:21 pm

Kallia

what time would be good?

5:21 pm

uusue2

On the other hand my my microwave is now cleaner than it's been in years :-)

5:21 pm

lilliann

oh, glant i need to tidy my craft room, it's a right mess!!

5:21 pm

Glantarell

not sure what time he's leaving, probably quite early

5:21 pm

Kallia

see every cloud sue.....

5:21 pm

Glantarell

I tidied mine at 6 this morning Lill

5:22 pm

Kallia

round 10ish be ok?

5:22 pm

Glantarell

yes, I'll be there

5:22 pm

lilliann

not good sue, but atleast microwave better now!:)

5:22 pm

Kallia

mine is nice and tidy...found my skeleton leaves, and went shopping for storage lol

5:23 pm

Glantarell

i had a chicken roasting in a bag in my microwave this week and the bag burst and my microwave is also very clean sue

5:23 pm

uusue2

Indeed. The thing I am most sorry about is that I did not get to drink the coffee.

5:23 pm

lilliann

mm, i haven't been able to do mine for a while and it is getting loaded with more crafty thing glant!plus it had my monility scooter in so not alot of room for things. need to get itdone!

5:23 pm

Glantarell

i'd have preferred to clean up coffee to chicken fat LOL

5:23 pm

Kallia

yep me to glan

5:24 pm

Glantarell

I have had no inclination to craft of late

5:24 pm

Kallia

it's the shopping that does it lill

5:24 pm

Glantarell

Shopping? Crafters go shopping? Surely not!

5:24 pm

Kallia

did you see my Angie rip off Glan?

5:24 pm

BabbleRabble

re 6 -- Guy Lombardo and his Band of re 6

5:25 pm

Glantarell

yes I did Kallia - but wanted to see it in real life and feel

5:25 pm

lilliann

i must admit i haven't either glant but not for the same reasons as you!

5:25 pm

Kallia

hello BR

5:25 pm

Glantarell

Hi BR

5:25 pm

lilliann

i just do it all online!

5:25 pm

Kallia

well that can be arranged Glan

5:25 pm

BabbleRabble

Hello

5:25 pm

lilliann

hi BR

5:26 pm

Glantarell

My daughter will be living in Tidworth next Kallia

5:26 pm

Kallia

goddy :)

5:26 pm

uusue2

hi, BR!

5:26 pm

Kallia

I mean goody...but will Tidworth be safe?

5:26 pm

Glantarell

Half an hour from you?

5:26 pm

Glantarell

how so safe?

5:26 pm

Kallia

yep

5:27 pm

lilliann

that's why my craft room is getting filled quicker and hubby moaning!good thing he is awy for the next few months, and i might ne able to get to my scooter and downstairs loo! hopefully!!

5:27 pm

Kallia

nice craft shop there too

5:27 pm

Glantarell

aaah, it will become livelier

5:27 pm

Kallia

that's what I meant :)

5:27 pm

Glantarell

oh good (craft shop) not that i intend to go shopping, oh no

5:27 pm

Kallia

of course not...heaven forbid!

5:28 pm

lilliann

i shop off tv

5:28 pm

Glantarell

anyway, off to bed - night all

5:28 pm

Glantarell

*poof*

5:28 pm

Kallia

anyway I am leaving this unfinished...talk tomorrow morning Glan

5:28 pm

Kallia

good night lill and BR and Glan

5:29 pm

lilliann

create and craft do paints, sewing, cards, srapbooking and everyhting you could think of and not just for brit people

5:29 pm

lilliann

nite glan anf kallia, tc and sweet dreams to you both

5:30 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Is someone who lights Hanukkah candles a menorist?

5:30 pm

uusue2

lol, kap, certainly should be!

5:31 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Just got smacked with 2 fish.

5:32 pm

lilliann

how did i miss the st7?

5:32 pm

lilliann

the i's in this grid are giving me a headache!

5:33 pm

uusue2

and something that is sonorous ought to be full of sonor, methinks.

5:33 pm

lilliann

yes it shoud sue!

5:38 pm

MollyL

*Hands Kap the Febreeze*

5:39 pm

periwinkle

ty BR for the re6

5:39 pm

MollyL

If twee is a word, why isn't twoo?

5:39 pm

uusue2

good question, molly.

5:43 pm

periwinkle

finally fireworks

5:44 pm

periwinkle

now off to read for a while, happy babbling all

5:44 pm

uusue2

yay, peri!

5:44 pm

periwinkle

ty bye for now

5:44 pm

uusue2

I still have 61 left but am planning to finish later - have to go to the dance the students are having from 9pm - 1am

5:45 pm

jesdraggon

back again.

5:45 pm

uusue2

hi, jes!

5:46 pm

jesdraggon

and shockingly, the grid does not appear to be any easier. hmm.

5:46 pm

jesdraggon

sore

5:46 pm

jesdraggon

oops. sorry!

5:47 pm

uusue2

that's ok, jes, I already had that one :-)

5:48 pm

lilliann

wtg peri, bye

5:48 pm

MollyL

Yay! Sue is going out to cut a rug!

5:48 pm

lilliann

wb jes

5:49 pm

uusue2

well, I don't know if I will actually dance, most of these kids are about 1/3 my age

oh, good, keep babbling then, it will take your mind off troubles to come, but hopefully the dance will go smoothly! :)

5:51 pm

uusue2

I hope so, lilli, they've had some trouble with underage drinking at these dances

5:52 pm

lilliann

oh, not good, but unless you check every child coming in what can you do?

5:52 pm

lilliann

are you aloud to frisk and check bags?

5:53 pm

uusue2

well, we do, but they drink out in the parking lot, hard to police

5:53 pm

MollyL

I forget that college kids are underage. The drinking age was 18 when I was in college.

5:53 pm

uusue2

I think we will check bags for sure, even the over-21s won't be able to bring alcohol in (they have to buy it there), or take it out.

5:53 pm

lilliann

aye they will drink beforehand!

5:54 pm

uusue2

Well, a lot of them are over 21, so alcohol is sold but we check IDs at the door and give them wristbands depending on age.

5:54 pm

MollyL

Do the police help with the parking lot?

5:55 pm

lilliann

i always thought you had to be 21 in the U.S or is that just bars?

5:55 pm

uusue2

yes, you do, lilli. No, they don't, Molly, not unless someone calls them in which case we are in trouble.

5:55 pm

MollyL

You do have to be 21 Lilliann. But when I was in college the legal drinking age was 18. They have raised it since then.

5:57 pm

uusue2

and it used to vary by state - I grew up in New Jersey where the drinking age was always 21, but New York used to be 18. Lots of kids would drive to New York, get drunk, then try to drive home, with predictable consequences.

5:57 pm

lilliann

ok,can you take children into bars aslong as they have an adult?

5:57 pm

MollyL

The AM radio guys I listen to refer to a guy they call Alcoholic Mike. Alcoholic Mike can smuggle an entire 12 pack of beer into a sports stadium wearing baggy pants and duct taping cans of beer to his legs. Now THAT is dedication. : P

5:58 pm

lilliann

mmm, i can see why sue, not good, so did they change it in ny aswell then?

5:58 pm

uusue2

depends on the bar, lilli, most you can but some are 21 and over only (these tend to be more hardcore and don't serve food)

5:58 pm

MollyL

Depends on the bar Lilliann.

5:58 pm

jessmom

I just heard that a beer at the Phillies game will cost $8.75. I'd be smuggling it in too, if I drank...

5:58 pm

lilliann

so you can take a child under 13 into a bar if it sells food?

5:59 pm

uusue2

usually, lilli, but those laws can vary from city to city, even. But if under 21 are not allowed there will be a sign.

6:00 pm

jesdraggon

depends on the state, actually. in wa, if there is a separate area for "the bar" you can have kids in the building, and even serve alcohol to the tables where the kids are, but kids aren't allowed in the "bar" area.

6:00 pm

lilliann

hubby and i would love to get a winniebago and tour the U.S but have a 11 yr old so need to go to places we could take her or we wait another 5/6 years and do it on our own

6:01 pm

jesdraggon

so, for instance, we have a bar and grill in town that has a "bar" that is just a half dozen stools at the counter, separated by a rail from the tables. and kids aren't supposed to be between the rail and the counter.

6:01 pm

lilliann

oh ok jes

6:01 pm

uusue2

lilli, as long as you are at places that also serve food you should be fine.

6:01 pm

MollyL

Lilliann, you can have drinks in many restaurants. It would be no problem to make that trip with your daughter.

6:02 pm

lilliann

we do have pubs the same in the uk where you can take children into one part and only adults in the other or pubs that won't have children at all

6:02 pm

jesdraggon

and most restaurants serve beer and wine, even if they don't have a bar for liquor.

6:04 pm

jesdraggon

is lickety behind, or do i just need to clear my cookies?

6:04 pm

MollyL

I have a suggestion about Winnebago travel. Make a short trip first, to see how you cope with the small space. I know people who have been at each others throats after long trips in Winnebagos.

6:05 pm

uusue2

no lickety today, jes

6:05 pm

jesdraggon

hmph. so much for doing this the easy way then.

6:06 pm

lilliann

oh ok, well when my hubby stops driving americans, aussies, kwis, asians and indians around the uk then hopefully we'll be able to travel the U.S. thats what we've wanted to do for years!one day we'll get our dream! hopefully! hubby wants to go to gtrand canyon, and me to hawaii and other places, not vegas tho as i would get dizzy with all the lights! :(

6:06 pm

MollyL

Lilliann, let me know when you figure out a way to Winnebago to Hawaii. : D

6:06 pm

uusue2

you can always drive through Vegas in the daytime, lilli, it's worth seeing even then.

6:07 pm

lilliann

my hubby drives 62 seater coaches molly and they are just as big if not bigger and loads of room, he's always wanted to drive one! :)

6:08 pm

jessmom

FMitch, gremlinn, and hootowl have lists in their profiles

6:08 pm

jesdraggon

via boat, molly. but it's a might slow drive! :)

6:09 pm

lilliann

well, i know we wouldn't winniebago to hawaii, unless it's like a james bond film and we can go underwater molly! lol

6:09 pm

car.eeyore

Does anyone else have the red message?

6:10 pm

lilliann

that's true sue. i would love to go to vegas, and also loads of places that aren't touristy?

6:10 pm

lilliann

hi car, no i don't

6:11 pm

jesdraggon

cant find any of those 3 in the "who's online". and babanon doesn't seem to have a list yet today either. it's a conspiracy! heh.

6:12 pm

lilliann

molly, to do with the space, it's probably bigger than my house! lol

6:12 pm

lilliann

do you want the list jes, then go on rankings and click on a name

6:12 pm

jesdraggon

ah well. guess i'll do something work related.

6:12 pm

uusue2

New Mexico is really nice, lilli, I lived there for 5 years. Similar to Colorado and Arizona but fewer people.

6:12 pm

jesdraggon

oh, good plan. thanks, lilli

6:13 pm

uusue2

no red messages here, car.

6:14 pm

lilliann

oh ok sue, i'll add it to my list so if we ever get there? i would like to go to new england, texas, florida, miami, ny,(been to airport) san franscisco

6:15 pm

car.eeyore

Help with the U's please...i only have un 6/30

6:15 pm

lilliann

and alot more places which we wouldn't be able to do in 3 weeks at a time!!:(

6:15 pm

jesdraggon

un6/21 is to pull a plant out

6:15 pm

jesdraggon

then plural it for the 7

6:15 pm

car.eeyore

TY! 2 for 1!

6:16 pm

MollyL

If an article of clothing is brand new, still with the tags on it is un 6/33

6:16 pm

lilliann

un5,20 opp of lost

6:16 pm

car.eeyore

Got em all! TY!

6:16 pm

car.eeyore

Hi Molly!

6:16 pm

scribekd

un + opp of to lose

6:16 pm

uusue2

thx, molly, that was my last u!

6:16 pm

car.eeyore

Molly....I MISSED the last episode of House, where #13 returns! Damn DVR!

6:17 pm

lilliann

ty jes

6:17 pm

MollyL

I'm always a week behind Car, we'll have to catch it on Hulu next week.

6:17 pm

MollyL

I don't like 13

6:17 pm

lilliann

where do you live molly?

6:17 pm

lilliann

i don't understand the md?

6:18 pm

MollyL

Metro DC area Lilliann

6:18 pm

car.eeyore

i do...I find her character very interesting...and very much like House!

6:18 pm

MollyL

Yes Lilliann, we are talking about the show House, MD

6:19 pm

lilliann

so sorry to be thick does that mean outside of ...read my my mind molly!! lol

6:20 pm

lilliann

ahh, well, one day i might come and annoy you then molly! :) lol

6:20 pm

dan2bit

House drinking game - every time they think it is sarcoidosis or heavy metal poisoning, drink

6:20 pm

dan2bit

hi all :-)

6:21 pm

car.eeyore

lol! how about every time they run some procedure and there is a complication!!!!??? No one would be left standing!

6:21 pm

lilliann

hi dan :)

6:21 pm

jesdraggon

hi dan

6:22 pm

MollyL

I'm going to be less and less interested in House once 13 is back and Masters is gone.

6:23 pm

car.eeyore

is that happening!?

6:23 pm

dan2bit

I seem to recall someone did do a calculation of patient cost of all the procedures they ran on one patient in one episode, it was in the 7 figures

6:23 pm

MollyL

Yep. Amber Tamblyn has already shot her last episode. I think we only have two more episodes with her. Then cat eyes is back for good. Meh.

6:24 pm

lilliann

duh, ive just realised after i asked you where you live molly tou spoke to me about house! i'm not bothered about house! some english man trying to talk with an american accent!it's the same as an american trying to speak english, either posh ot cockney!, sorry, but true!

6:26 pm

lilliann

i meant metro dc area? is that where the whitehouse is?

6:26 pm

jesdraggon

er7?

6:26 pm

MollyL

Of course, we still don't know if this will be the last season for House or not. I've heard Hugh Laurie has only contracted for 7 seasons.

6:26 pm

MollyL

er 7 is what happens when water wears down the soil.

6:27 pm

jesdraggon

thankee. awfully fishy for a 7

6:27 pm

MollyL

The White House is in Washington, DC. I live about 30 miles from there.

well, so far so good sue. I will teach the entire first half of each morning starting the monday after spring break!

6:35 pm

uusue2

cool! Is spring break next week?

6:35 pm

lilliann

wtg stid! :)

6:35 pm

fruittart

car -- it's hard to not love something covered in fresh fruit!

6:35 pm

car.eeyore

Excellent STid!

6:35 pm

stidmama

yep. I am officially vacationing, although I am actually working a little bit on some paperwork for the college at the moment.

6:36 pm

MollyL

*Throws choclits at Stid before she runs back out of the chog*

6:36 pm

fruittart

how exciting stid!

6:36 pm

car.eeyore

Ummm...are YOU covered in fresh fruit?!?!? LOL ; P

6:36 pm

stidmama

*big grin* now to relurk... *snatches choclits on the way out* *micropoof*

6:37 pm

fruittart

phone. I"m gone again

6:37 pm

lilliann

my cousin is a qualified teachers assistant plus and now she has been accepted into uni so will work in schools and uni and then be a qualified primary school teacher

6:37 pm

car.eeyore

Did I scare fruit away?!?!?

6:37 pm

MollyL

Are Aladdin's friends really spelled like that in the book?

6:38 pm

MollyL

No, I scared Stid away.

6:38 pm

lilliann

she qualified last year and did it through a home programme

6:38 pm

car.eeyore

I think that is the appropriate plural spelling, yest.

6:38 pm

car.eeyore

Wow Lilliann! Good for her!

6:39 pm

lilliann

she works in a special school at teh moment. we use to do the same job, work with people wirh specail needs and chanllenging behavour!

6:40 pm

fruittart

you didn't scare me car ;-) (I'm *not* personally covered in fruit) but the gparents are in China and want to skype the gkids now, so I need to poof.

6:40 pm

uusue2

e's done

6:40 pm

car.eeyore

Bye Fruit!

6:41 pm

car.eeyore

Yeah uusue! I need help with the lower right one please? I only have el 5/16 from there.

6:41 pm

lilliann

i'm really proud of her car. it took her 3 years bringing up a child, working, keepinf house and having a husband, sad thing is she's split up with the husband!

6:41 pm

lilliann

nite fruit, tc

6:41 pm

car.eeyore

I am proud of her too!

6:42 pm

uusue2

god of love and the effects on ground of too much rain, car.

6:42 pm

uusue2

that's an er4/4 and er7/28

6:42 pm

lilliann

aww, that's lovely car! :)

6:43 pm

uusue2

ok, off to home, bbs *poof*

6:43 pm

car.eeyore

Are there more EF's?

6:43 pm

car.eeyore

Bye uusue! TY!

6:43 pm

lilliann

do you have the el female sprite?

6:43 pm

car.eeyore

Yes, that is the one I have from that corner.

6:44 pm

lilliann

bfn sue

6:44 pm

lilliann

do you have the cut of meat?

6:45 pm

car.eeyore

I do now! TY!

6:45 pm

scribekd

put an e in front of it

6:45 pm

lilliann

oh good, don't forget the person who is/does it?

6:46 pm

car.eeyore

Tile grayed!!!! TY!

6:46 pm

lilliann

yw

6:47 pm

car.eeyore

back in a bit...laundry!

6:47 pm

lilliann

ok

6:49 pm

rastapopolous

I guess freon's still considered a brand name. I'd've thought it would be like kleenex or formica; assimilated

6:50 pm

MollyL

It is Rasta. But that doesn't mean geezy old Enable is going to recognize it.

6:50 pm

lilliann

never heard of freon

6:51 pm

lilliann

heard of the other 2 rasta

6:51 pm

lilliann

what is freon?

6:51 pm

MollyL

It's the gas in an air conditioner.

6:52 pm

rastapopolous

Freon is the refrigerant that got banned because of cfc's

6:52 pm

lilliann

oh ok, ty

6:53 pm

lilliann

molly. have you ever been to the uk?

6:53 pm

MollyL

No, I am not an airplane person.

6:54 pm

lilliann

oh ok. is it heights, claustrophobia?

6:55 pm

MollyL

Both

6:55 pm

lilliann

my mam hates flying as she is both!

6:56 pm

MollyL

I'm also very grounded to the Earth. I get out of sorts in the mountains. I need ground under my feet and an open view of the sky.

6:58 pm

lilliann

when our bairn was younger we took my mam and dad to corfu. she did brillaintly there(had a few whiskies first) and coming back was ok until we got grounded at another island and my hubby told her it was because they were fixing things on the outside of the plane, which they were but i tild him not to say anything,but typical s.i.l had to, so she panicked all the way home!!

6:58 pm

gapeach1066@yaho

Did Lickety put up a list today? Thanks

6:59 pm

lilliann

no peach

6:59 pm

lilliann

fm, hootowl and gremlin i think

6:59 pm

gapeach1066@yaho

Thanks, lilliann/

6:59 pm

lilliann

*have lists

6:59 pm

wildcat17

lists in profiles - fmitch, gremlinn

6:59 pm

lilliann

yw peach

7:01 pm

lilliann

i know what you mean molly but that is because i don't have any balance so, actually even ground doesn't always help!! lol

7:03 pm

MissOmnibus

morning all

7:04 pm

lilliann

hi miss

7:04 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Morning?How is tomorrow going?

7:05 pm

MissOmnibus

Eh, I live, I survived april fools :P

7:06 pm

MollyL

My boss's sister just moved to China. She's having a hard time making flight reservations to come back home to visit and realizing that her ETA is yesterday.

7:06 pm

wvteach

i have a list in my profile

7:06 pm

MissOmnibus

thanks wv <3

7:07 pm

Kaplan the Magne

I have been here on and off since this AM and still don't have any left side i's. I know they are im5's and i'm still stuck!

7:07 pm

lilliann

do you want clues kap?

7:07 pm

Kaplan the Magne

At this point, yes I do.

7:08 pm

Kaplan the Magne

They must be fish.

7:08 pm

MollyL

Not fish. Sick, crotchety Enable words.

7:08 pm

lilliann

im is acid in body and im ans to do with people going underground and getting coal

7:09 pm

MollyL

One is i + yours **** and ours. Change the last vowel for the other.

7:09 pm

lilliann

or gold?

7:09 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Got one- the second one.

7:09 pm

lilliann

im and change the last vowel

7:09 pm

Kaplan the Magne

YESSSS.

7:10 pm

Kaplan the Magne

imino

7:10 pm

Kaplan the Magne

OWWWWW!

7:10 pm

MollyL

That's it!!!!

7:11 pm

lilliann

that'll be it :)

7:11 pm

Kaplan the Magne

That was a mistake. What's to eat in the PB?

7:11 pm

Kaplan the Magne

and I know it doesn't end in an o.

7:11 pm

lilliann

haven't got a clue at the moment i 'm scoffing peanuts!! :)

7:12 pm

Shirlockc

fi7?

7:12 pm

MollyL

6 foot sub Kap. Half veggie for you non meat eaters.

7:13 pm

MollyL

A fish has a fi*, a person has a **** on the end of their leg. Then plural it.

7:13 pm

lilliann

what a fish has to swim and pt of our things that we walk on

7:13 pm

Shirlockc

what kind of word ist hat? thx lili

7:14 pm

lilliann

yw shirl...god knows!!

7:15 pm

jmbdobie2

and plural

7:17 pm

lilliann

jm, when i first looked at your icon i thought lovely horses (my bairn would love them as she rides) then when i've looked closer, they're dobermans(huge) but lovely!

7:18 pm

lilliann

i've never seen a brown one tho!

7:19 pm

redturtlehead

Hello babblers. thanks molly for that odd fish leg thing..

7:20 pm

MollyL

Hi Red, how goes it this evening?

7:21 pm

redturtlehead

I am extremely glad to be home. how are you?

7:21 pm

MollyL

Extremely glad it's Friday.

7:21 pm

redturtlehead

Horray for friday!

7:23 pm

MollyL

And glad that my girlie in law is home from the hospital. She had complications after gall bladder removal and has been having tests for three days. All is well though.

7:23 pm

redturtlehead

Oh thats good news Molly!

7:24 pm

MollyL

Apparently some gall stones flew the coop before her gall bladder was removed and were stuck in a bile duct, or something. They have been zapped.

7:25 pm

redturtlehead

good news.

7:25 pm

Shirlockc

fr the first?

7:25 pm

redturtlehead

Hope she is feeling better.

7:28 pm

lilliann

fr6 is 1st 3 letters of opp off locked up nad when we nearly get pins and needles shirl

7:28 pm

scribekd

my 1st fr is the icy stuff that is on your windshield on cold mornings

7:28 pm

MollyL

Since she is a pediatric ER nurse, the last thing she wants to do is spend time in a hospital, but she is a good sport about it.

7:28 pm

redturtlehead

thats my first one too scribekid,,,

7:28 pm

Shirlockc

thx lili

7:29 pm

lilliann

yw shirl

7:29 pm

lilliann

there are 2 before that red ad scribe

7:30 pm

Shirlockc

gu6?

7:30 pm

scribekd

oh-thanks

7:31 pm

lilliann

gu, letter and nil

7:31 pm

MollyL

ad scribe???

7:31 pm

uusue2

hi again, all, I am home now :-0

7:32 pm

car.eeyore

Hi uusue! I am back too!

7:32 pm

lilliann

wb sue

7:32 pm

MollyL

Never mind, that was and scribe

7:32 pm

MollyL

Never mind, that was and scribe

7:32 pm

MollyL

Car, how is your son feeling?

7:32 pm

lilliann

wb car

7:32 pm

uusue2

finally made sense of lilli's fr clue, thx!

7:33 pm

car.eeyore

I am not getting the pins and needles part...

7:34 pm

lilliann

sorry, but glad you got it! i'm not good at clueing! :(

7:35 pm

lilliann

when you get pins and needles in your feet they go ***b

7:35 pm

MollyL

The word for what your hand is when you can't feel it, minus the last letter

7:35 pm

Shirlockc

when they do novacain, your gums get ***b, rhymes

7:35 pm

car.eeyore

got it!

7:37 pm

MollyL

What is really weird is that, going by the definition of that word, in the US it ends in "ulum".

7:38 pm

car.eeyore

Yup1

7:39 pm

car.eeyore

I'm sorry...who has a list again?

7:39 pm

wvteach

i hve the one from FMitch in my profile

7:39 pm

uusue2

FMitch, car.

7:40 pm

MollyL

Oh, just about everyone. Gremlin, FM, WVTeach to name a few. It's been a real copy and paste kind of day.

7:40 pm

car.eeyore

TY! 46 to go...heading to list...

7:41 pm

car.eeyore

EN 6/18 please?

7:41 pm

Shirlockc

en+ plant part

7:41 pm

scribekd

en + plant tendrils

7:41 pm

scribekd

& plural

7:42 pm

car.eeyore

TY scribe! Thought I had tried that! Oh well!

7:42 pm

scribekd

yvw-i monkeyed it & was shocked

7:42 pm

Shirlockc

mu6?

7:43 pm

BabbleRabble

mu + horse guide

7:43 pm

car.eeyore

mu + prefix for do again

7:43 pm

car.eeyore

Hi BR!!!!

7:43 pm

Shirlockc

thx BR

7:44 pm

MollyL

Eye drops for a horse...har dee har

7:44 pm

uusue2

fo6?

7:44 pm

lilliann

sounds like something that will kill us sue

7:44 pm

MollyL

Rhymes with the ivy that makes you itchy

7:45 pm

Shirlockc

this is not a fun puzzle

7:45 pm

uusue2

thx, molly and lilli!

7:46 pm

car.eeyore

TY!

7:46 pm

MollyL

No Shirl, it's not. It's full of words that no one uses in everyday conversation.

7:46 pm

Shirlockc

and harder without lickety

7:47 pm

BabbleRabble

I use them all the time .... I am getting good at talking to myself.

7:47 pm

MollyL

As in, I had to fo6/27 the fo 8/70 because they were galumping all over my kitchen.

7:47 pm

lilliann

we don't get thet in the uk! we get nettle stings, but not what you get, luckily enough fornus

7:47 pm

lilliann

*for us!

7:48 pm

MollyL

Oh BabbleRabble, I'm not sure talking to yourself in a preponderance of Babble words is a good thing.

7:49 pm

car.eeyore

None of these clues are making sense to me. I think I will pack it in.

7:49 pm

car.eeyore

good night everyone and thank you!

7:49 pm

rastapopolous

fo8/70? that's not on FMitch's list. Is there one?

7:49 pm

uusue2

I think she means fi8/70

7:49 pm

lilliann

no, there is an fi8

7:50 pm

MollyL

I did mean fi9, mea culpa.

7:50 pm

lilliann

car you can do it hin :)

7:50 pm

MollyL

Night Car.

7:50 pm

car.eeyore

Kids are here...TV is on...too distracted.

7:50 pm

car.eeyore

Night all!

7:51 pm

MollyL

Or fi8...

7:51 pm

lilliann

nite hin and tc

7:51 pm

uusue2

I am missing one fr5/16, I have the frozen water

7:51 pm

MollyL

Getting tired, typing skills fading.

7:52 pm

lilliann

fr an mineral

7:52 pm

Jacula

Hi all.

7:52 pm

lilliann

hi jac

7:52 pm

uusue2

ah, thx, lilli! F's done now.

7:52 pm

lilliann

yw sue

7:53 pm

Jacula

uusue - the other fr5/15 in an old word for the same thing. f + what sounds like a lion noise.

7:53 pm

Jacula

Hi Lil. How are you?

7:55 pm

lilliann

i'm fine thanks jac...u?

7:55 pm

Jacula

Gosh, uusue, I've just been reading through your bio.

7:55 pm

lilliann

hubby working tonight?

7:55 pm

Jacula

Fine here, too, thanks Lil. Been doing a lot of gardening in past few days.

7:55 pm

Nef

Good Evening All. First time here in several days; looks like a tougher grid

7:56 pm

Jacula

No, Lil, not working tonight, but will be up at 5am to work Saturday morning.

7:56 pm

Jacula

Hi Nef.

7:56 pm

uusue2

quite a soap opera, isn't it, Jac?

7:56 pm

lilliann

hi nef

7:57 pm

lilliann

aye not a great one!!

7:57 pm

Jacula

uusue - Yes! Life certainly throws some curved balls. It does in everyone's lives, of course, but not always all at once.

7:57 pm

uusue2

ok, now I am missing one of the last two in5/12's; I have the one that means to get used to something.

7:58 pm

lilliann

mine is away and will be with americans on coach tomorrow

7:58 pm

Jacula

The other in5.12 is to put something, probably a dead body into a receptacle.

ah, thx, jac and shirlock, I figured it was similar to the other one. I's done now.

7:59 pm

Jacula

My cousin, who was taken to Canada when he was about 3 or 4, is in Scotland (Edinburgh) at the moment with a curling team. (That's the ice sport, not a team of hairdressers, btw.) My cousins up in Scotland will be seeing him this week.

8:00 pm

Jacula

So, Lil. I guess he's driving a coach at present?

8:01 pm

lilliann

he has a contract with a scotch guy and will be driving, americans, aussies, kwis, chinese, koreans, etc

8:01 pm

uusue2

L's done.

8:01 pm

Jacula

Scottish, not Scotch! He'd better not say 'scotch' up there or he will be plied with alcohol. LOL

8:02 pm

lilliann

yes, alot more money as he is self employed and tips are good from the company they are driving for

8:03 pm

lilliann

plus david does it right. managing directors and guides have shook his hand saying what a good driver and guy he is!

8:03 pm

uusue2

M's done.

8:03 pm

lilliann

lorry driving has helped that mind!

8:03 pm

MollyL

Jac!! I know that about Scottish and Scotch. : P

8:03 pm

lilliann

cool jac

8:04 pm

lilliann

i have family and hubby has family in canada too, never met them tho

8:04 pm

uusue2

N's done.

8:04 pm

Jacula

My daughter's in Australia at the moment. Brisbane at the moment but is going to Adelaide on Sunday, then back to Brisbane.

8:05 pm

lilliann

hi scotch is a drink!! lol

8:05 pm

Nef

you are whipping right along there, uusue!

8:05 pm

lilliann

cool, hope she is having a good time jac?

8:06 pm

uusue2

O's done :-)

8:06 pm

wildcat17

o clues please

8:06 pm

MollyL

Sue is trying to finish before she goes to teach all the college kids how to shake it up on the dance floor. : )

8:06 pm

Jacula

She's spending about 3 months in Oz and then is off to Bali, then back to OZ to go to Canada with a stop in USA (Seattle) on the way. She wants to see if she will be 'sleepless' there. LOL.

8:07 pm

uusue2

lol, molly!

8:07 pm

uusue2

any particular o's, wildcat, or just all of them?

8:08 pm

BabbleRabble

or + another word for great plains beast: b****

8:08 pm

Jacula

When she gets to Canada, she will be staying first with friends who emigrated a couple of years ago, then with her aunt and uncle, and then with my aunt and uncle, and possibly also my cousin. Her brother will be joining her at some point to go to the Clagary Stampede.

8:08 pm

Shirlockc

of7

8:08 pm

MollyL

Seriously Sue, get out there and show them how it's done. Kids today have no rhythm whatsoever. They missed out on the Motown beat.

8:08 pm

Jacula

Oh Motown! The beat of my youth!

8:08 pm

BabbleRabble

the one extending the of 5

8:08 pm

Nef

picturing a physics prof "shaking it up on the dance fl*** and I find I'm imagining it may take some sort of propellant to do that!

8:09 pm

Jacula

of7 = the one who makes the of5/22.

8:09 pm

MollyL

Their idea of dancing is jerking around like they are on fire. Blech.

8:09 pm

uusue2

well, except I would have to dance to their music, which isn't quite what I remember from the old days :-)

8:09 pm

Shirlockc

argh, spelt that of7 wrong! thx jac

8:09 pm

MollyL

Bribe the DJ.

8:10 pm

uusue2

they are the DJ, Molly - they bring their own music and sound system

8:10 pm

Jacula

Molly - so standing in two opposing lines with handbags (purses) down the middle and all doing exactly the same moves in synch is better?

8:10 pm

MollyL

Oh my God, forget what I said. Bring ear plugs. And the single malt.

8:11 pm

lilliann

i'm going to have to ask reask my mam about our family in canada and find out nore about hubby's. it would be great to meet them whilst we are still here!

8:11 pm

wildcat17

ty got both I needed

8:11 pm

Jacula

Not really asking, just having a giggle thinking about the old days in youth club.

8:11 pm

uusue2

Ear plugs I was definitely thinking of :-)

8:11 pm

wildcat17

need 2 G's please

8:12 pm

Shirlockc

gu7 is what happens when you use a pistol

8:12 pm

MollyL

I don't know Jac. That's not the kind of line dancing I remember. See Steve Winwood's "Roll With It" video for what I'm talking about.

8:13 pm

Jacula

gu6 is a type of African monkey.

8:14 pm

Shirlockc

no idea about the monkey

8:15 pm

BabbleRabble

English is my native ton gu* + without prefix

8:15 pm

wildcat17

ty

8:15 pm

Jacula

Molly - I will look at that. Maybe dancing in the late60s/early 70s was different in UK and USA youth clubs. LOL

8:15 pm

wildcat17

need one more please

8:15 pm

Jacula

which one, wild?

8:16 pm

Shirlockc

thx jac!

8:16 pm

Ouwachita

how many words today?

8:17 pm

squidgy82000

173

8:17 pm

uusue2

R

8:17 pm

Ouwachita

I am missing one then

8:17 pm

uusue2

R's done.

8:18 pm

uusue2

Wildcat, the g's are pretty much all weird. ge5/14, ge5/14, ge6/24, ge4/7, ge4/8, gu6/27, gu7/52. Which one do you need?

8:19 pm

wildcat17

got it ty

8:19 pm

wildcat17

bottom left corner R pleae

8:19 pm

wildcat17

please

8:20 pm

Jacula

There are a few from that corner!

8:20 pm

uusue2

ri4/5 salty stuff, then two more variants of that

8:21 pm

uusue2

then go straight along the bottom and up one for an ri6

8:21 pm

uusue2

and double the high-point letter for the 7

8:21 pm

Jacula

You're probably looking for ri7/52 - which is a type of file/rasp.

8:22 pm

wildcat17

ty ty

8:22 pm

wildcat17

N's please from both tiles

8:23 pm

MollyL

Original line dancing was considerably different from the "cleaned up" way the kids of the 60's did it. It was the pre-cursor for "Dirty Dancing".

8:23 pm

Jacula

nu5/14 - the males that are not old?

8:23 pm

jwr

I thought ri7/52 was a way of mixing cards

8:24 pm

jwr

a deck of cards, I mean

8:24 pm

Jacula

jwr - that's another meaning of both ri6 and 7 that I have heard.

8:24 pm

wildcat17

haha ty

8:25 pm

jwr

the things we learn!

8:25 pm

Jacula

no4.4 - French for 'black'

8:25 pm

Jacula

no4.4 - the middle of the day.

8:25 pm

Minveryork

Good evening to my fellow babblers! How is everyone?

8:25 pm

Minveryork

By the way, congratulations to all the finishers! YAY!

8:25 pm

Jacula

no4.4 - nada, zilch.

8:25 pm

uusue2

great, min!

8:25 pm

Jacula

Hi Min.

8:25 pm

Nef

hi Min

8:26 pm

Jacula

No4.4 - anagram of the French word. No5.10 - plural of that.

8:26 pm

uusue2

S's done.

8:26 pm

lilliann

fireworks!!

8:26 pm

lilliann

hi min

8:26 pm

uusue2

yay, lilli!

8:26 pm

Jacula

no4.8 - present times?

8:26 pm

Minveryork

Congratulations lilliann on fireworks! Hooray for you!

8:26 pm

Jacula

Well done Lil!

8:27 pm

Nef

YAY, lillian!!!! WTG!!!!

8:27 pm

wildcat17

woohoo lilliann!

8:27 pm

Jacula

no4.8 - Yorkshire way of saying 'nothing'. no5.18 is the plural.

8:27 pm

Minveryork

I have a list in my profile if anyone needs to use a list.

8:27 pm

lilliann

tyvm all.

8:27 pm

Jacula

ni6 - a bit of a smelly person, maybe?

8:28 pm

lilliann

not just yorkshire jac, it's a north eastern thing

8:28 pm

Jacula

ne6.21 - brain thingeys that die the older you get.

8:28 pm

lilliann

they say ir up here

8:28 pm

lilliann

*it

8:29 pm

Jacula

ne4/6 = ne + what you say when you can't quite think what to say next.

8:29 pm

uusue2

T's done.

8:29 pm

Jacula

ne4/9 = ne + where I live. Or, if that doesn't work for you think of an atomic bomb.

8:30 pm

Jacula

ne4.7 = ne + famous Kipling poem title.

8:30 pm

Minveryork

Terrific uusue2!

8:30 pm

lilliann

am off to bed as hubby not here to keep me up all nite with his snoring for a while! nite all,sweet dreams and tc.x

8:30 pm

wildcat17

ty N's done

8:30 pm

Jacula

That's all of the 'n' words clued, I think.

8:30 pm

wildcat17

also need 3 M's please

8:30 pm

Minveryork

Goodbye lilliann! I'll see you tomorrow in the chat log.

8:30 pm

Minveryork

Nice wildcat17!

8:31 pm

Jacula

'Night Lil! Oh I SO understand! Sleep well!

8:31 pm

lilliann

hopefully min :)

8:31 pm

uusue2

fireworks!!!!!!!!

8:31 pm

lilliann

yay! wtg sue!!

8:31 pm

Jacula

Well sone uusue!

8:32 pm

lilliann

nite jac.:).x

8:32 pm

vanillaslice

someone help me with ge6,21 pls

8:32 pm

Minveryork

Congratulations uusue2 on fireworks! Hooray for you

8:32 pm

Nef

WTG, uusue!!! YAY!!

8:32 pm

Minveryork

Hello vanillaslice! How are you doing? Welcome to grid

8:32 pm

wildcat17

yay sue!

8:32 pm

vanillaslice

ge6,24

8:33 pm

Nef

sorry, vanilla, I don't have it yet

8:33 pm

LeslieAnn

considering jumping in - how's the water?

8:33 pm

uusue2

plural of the ge5/14, vanilla

8:33 pm

wildcat17

it's a tricky thing

8:33 pm

Jacula

vanilla - plural of the ge5 before it. (Japanese statesman.)

8:33 pm

vanillaslice

hi min, I'm still procastrinating to pay or not to pay. If I do I'll come here more often and that might not be good

8:34 pm

Jacula

Hi LesA.

8:34 pm

LeslieAnn

hmmm.

8:34 pm

Nef

hey, LA. I just got here a bit ago and am finding it hard

8:34 pm

vanillaslice

ahh yes, Jac, thx vm

8:34 pm

Minveryork

Hi LeslieAnn! How are you doing? Welcome to the grid

8:34 pm

squidgy82000

it is worth paying it is for life

8:34 pm

Jacula

y/w, Vanilla.

8:34 pm

wildcat17

lol vanilla

8:35 pm

crosshair

best 11 dollars i ever spent;)

8:35 pm

squidgy82000

i havnt played for over a year and now i am back

8:35 pm

vanillaslice

one more to go have to find which one

8:35 pm

Nef

vanilla, you should pay the one time fee now. Then you can come when you want and you don't HAVE to get hooked

8:36 pm

LeslieAnn

welcome back squidgy!

8:36 pm

Jacula

Crossy is right! It can take over your life, but it doesn't have to. You can always leave and come back any time you like and you only need do as much as you want to.

8:36 pm

Minveryork

Go vanillaslice go!

8:36 pm

vanillaslice

self discipline is not my strong point on the computer

8:36 pm

squidgy82000

thankyou

8:36 pm

Nef

I wonder if the price will go up once the new changes happen?

8:36 pm

crosshair

yes,after you go pro,it is always there for you,as much or as little as you wish

8:36 pm

uusue2

hi, squidgy! I went away for a couple of years myself and just came back a few months ago

8:37 pm

squidgy82000

what new changes?

8:37 pm

jwr

what new changes?

8:37 pm

jwr

The world wants to know

8:37 pm

squidgy82000

lol

8:37 pm

LeslieAnn

dr. g. has been planning some upgrades for a while now - but i think they are stalled at the moment

8:37 pm

Nef

Dr_God is working on an upgrade

8:37 pm

wildcat17

dr g is redesigning the site

8:38 pm

Jacula

Nef - mind you, he's been working on that for about a year now...

8:38 pm

wildcat17

he has a facebook page with all the stuff and our comments

8:38 pm

Nef

Check out FB for more information

8:38 pm

jwr

I like it just the way it is.

8:38 pm

squidgy82000

what is the facebook page called

8:38 pm

wildcat17

there's an echo in here

8:38 pm

Nef

well, Jac; good things take time!

8:38 pm

Jacula

jwr - yes, we all do, but change happens.

8:38 pm

wildcat17

that's not one of the choices jwr

8:39 pm

jwr

what's the word for when two people say the same thing at the same time? I think in England it's "snap"

As far as I recall, you have to be a friend of Dr_God on FB and then you'll see the stuff.

8:40 pm

LeslieAnn

jinx

8:40 pm

vanillaslice

fireworks!!!! although I don't see the sparks now

8:40 pm

Jacula

Oh, was it Babble Community? I've been there so long, I forget.:-(

8:40 pm

Nef

YAY, vanillaslice!!! WTG!!!!

8:40 pm

wildcat17

yay van!!

8:40 pm

LeslieAnn

*~*~*~*~*FIREWORKS FOR VANILLASLICE*~*~*~*~*~

8:41 pm

Jacula

Well done vanilla. Here's some sparks for you. I~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

8:41 pm

wildcat17

I need f, m, and s

8:41 pm

Minveryork

Congratulations vanillaslice on fireworks! Good for U!

8:41 pm

vanillaslice

ty all, now i can go and do the gardening

8:41 pm

Jacula

Heh! You can tell the Old Guard - we do it the way we used to do it before the visible fireworks came.

8:42 pm

Minveryork

Goodbye vanillaslice!I will see you tomorrow in the log

8:42 pm

squidgy82000

i just joined on facebook

8:45 pm

Jacula

wild - you'll have to be more specific.

8:47 pm

Jacula

You probably need mu6/24?mu + a piece of horse tack.

8:47 pm

jwr

Congrats, van -- now you're hooked for real! -. . . As -far as the changes go, I'll just have to wait and see -- As a matter of principle, privacy, and having an overabundance of face-to-face communication in my life already, I do not space, face, skype, twit ... or enter the chog very often. But if I wanted to belong to an online social group, this would probably be it. You're a neat bunch. Off to work. Bye, all. Good luck finishing this one.

8:48 pm

wvteach

fireworks here

8:48 pm

LeslieAnn

thanks for the kind words, jwr. have a great day.

8:48 pm

LeslieAnn

nice work teach!

8:48 pm

Jacula

'Bye jwr. See you again.

8:48 pm

Minveryork

Congratulations wvteach on fireworks! Good for you!

8:49 pm

Jacula

Well done wvteach.

8:49 pm

Nef

YAY, wv! WTG!!

8:50 pm

wildcat17

ty jac and I can't be specific - I'm not listing

8:50 pm

Jacula

mi6/21 = more muddy or boggy.

8:50 pm

wildcat17

woohoo wv!

8:51 pm

Jacula

Yes, but, wild, is asking those of us wh have finished any less diminishing than listing (lists provided by those of us who have finished)?

8:52 pm

Jacula

I just wonder.

8:52 pm

LeslieAnn

i think so. those are my rules sometimes too :)

8:52 pm

Jacula

Obviously, using Lickety, which is generated from a word solver is different.

8:54 pm

Magyk

evening

8:54 pm

LeslieAnn

hallo magyk

8:54 pm

wildcat17

no I list plenty of times. I'm just not tonight

8:55 pm

Jacula

We all approach this game differently. I see clues, other than the first 2 letters of a word, more challenging than being given a clue. However, there is no right or wrong in this game.

8:55 pm

Minveryork

Hello Magyk! How are you doing? Welcome to the grid

8:55 pm

Jacula

Hi Magyk.

8:55 pm

Magyk

I'm well, Min. Yourself?

8:55 pm

Nef

Something that helps when I don't list is that I give a list of the words I *do* have; such as "I have no4X4,no5, no4; what am I missing?"

8:56 pm

Nef

hi Magyk

8:57 pm

Jacula

I tend not to look at the chog when I'm on my first run of the grid. I do glance and see how everyone's lives are going but I tend to avoid any word clues. Obviously, bbeing only human, I do notice some and act on them.

8:58 pm

uusue2

ok, off to the dance, see you all tomorrow!

8:58 pm

Jacula

I guess it all depends on whether you want to do the grid for your own pleasure or for praise from others.

8:58 pm

Jacula

Have fun - uusue!

8:59 pm

Minveryork

Goodbye uusue2! I will see you tomorrow in the chog.

8:59 pm

MollyL

I agree that we all approach this game differently. I feel like it gets bogged down when it's all about who finished first, who lists and when, and the whole "status" thing. And I have to laugh at those who won't list until they are half-way, and yet ask for the points status on certain words. Um...isn't that that same thing as looking at the list?

8:59 pm

LeslieAnn

bye sue

8:59 pm

Nef

I try to get NBT and NBS before chatting; so I often say Hi then disappear into the grid. Obviously, tonight is an exception (I haven't got the 8 letter word and I don't have the left and right column I's yet)

9:00 pm

MollyL

Have fun Sue!

9:00 pm

Jacula

Once, I used to pick up the morning paper, do the quick and the cryptic crosswords and then get on with stuff.

9:00 pm

LeslieAnn

eh, everyone makes their own rules. i have to get 2/3 of the way before i list - but if i get them from chog or on my own doesn't matter

9:01 pm

MollyL

And Jac, you did all that without clues, a list or chatting friends who clue. : D

9:01 pm

LeslieAnn

and i always talk right away. since i'm a motormouth

9:01 pm

Jacula

I try to take the same approach to Babble,, except, since I went into the Menopause and got all 'sleepless', I can't resist coming back here either to clue or to chat. Well, it's better than being awake and alone.

9:01 pm

Nef

I'm a motormouth too, LA! :-)

9:02 pm

Jacula

Molly - Yes, I did.

9:02 pm

Minveryork

My own rule is to get half finished chogless & listless.

9:02 pm

Nef

The thing is; we all make our own rules on how we play. It's a mind game to me; I just challenge myself

9:02 pm

Jacula

I'm afraid I'm a word nerd, and more so in the years since I found Babble.

9:03 pm

MollyL

Jac, I am now laughing, thinking about doctors recommending Babble to women going through menopause.

9:03 pm

Jacula

Nef - I've always made it a challenge to myself.

9:03 pm

Minveryork

Once I have half done, I go to list and enter the chat log & look for clues. Hardly ever ask for clues though.

9:05 pm

MollyL

I love the term "word nerd". I find it fun to increase my vocabulary. But only with words that I may use on a regular basis. One of the reasons these grids bore me is that they are chock full of words that I will never use in writing or in conversation. I have no use for words like that.

9:07 pm

Jacula

Min - I rarely ask for clues, either.

9:07 pm

Nef

Molly! You shock me! You mean you don't go around talking about inias, tahrs, and emyds every day? ;-)

9:07 pm

LeslieAnn

what a peasant.

9:07 pm

Jacula

Molly - I just love languages and the origins and meanings of words, But maybe that's because I'm a writer.

9:08 pm

Jacula

I collect words like I collect recipes. (Yes, I love cooking, too.) LOL

9:09 pm

MollyL

Sorry Nef, no...alas I do not. And Jac, I'm a writer too. But writing (to me) is about communication. And I will never communicate with my readers if I use words that most people have never heard of.

9:09 pm

Jacula

Knowing what words mean helps you to understand so much more about everything and where it all came from.

9:10 pm

Nef

but if you can't interpret things so your audience can understand you it's moot, Jac

9:11 pm

MollyL

Amen Nef. If "I" know what words mean, and use them in conversation, or in my writing, I lose those with whom I am trying to communicate with.

9:12 pm

Jacula

Molly - I'm not a literary writer, or rather a writer of literature (see Martin Amies for total arrogant pr*ck) but I do think a love of language helps in writing. And, no, I won't use a big word when a small one will do. I want my readers to relax and enjoy whilst reading my stuff.

9:12 pm

Minveryork

I am stopping at 126 words and 1818 points.Bye to all

9:12 pm

Minveryork

Goodnight to my fellow babblers! I'll see you tomorrow

9:12 pm

LeslieAnn

good night min

9:12 pm

Jacula

'Bye Min. See you again.x

9:12 pm

Nef

good night Min

9:13 pm

Jacula

Molly - what you just said to Nef is what I do, too.

9:14 pm

MollyL

Oh Jac, don't get me wrong. I think a love of language helps in writing. But if it gets to the point where I come across as arrogant because I am using too many words that are "above" my audience, I will lose them. And that is not the point of why I write.

9:15 pm

Jacula

I was a bit shocked last year when I watched a programme on TV about Scrabble Championships. They all use weird and wonderful, and sometimes long words, but not many of them know what the words mean. They just see each formation of letters as a maths, as a score. That, to me, is unacceptable.

9:17 pm

Nef

way back in the early 80's, I was working in ICU and a patient had an NG tube in (to keep her stomach empty ), and ET tube in (for breathing) a foley cath (for urine) and numerous central lines (IV's and an arterial line in to give her fluids and measureher heart and lung pressures. The Docs kept telling her family about these things; but the family had no clue about any of it and the Docs didn't "get" that. Finally the family asked me if all the tubes would get tangle up in her and tied in a knot

9:19 pm

Jacula

Molly - I totaly agree! I wasn't calling you arrogant, btw. I was commenting really on remarks I saw Martin Amies make about his hero from the novel 'Money'. He would not ever let that hero speak for himself, but always had to intervene through things thought. Why? Because, 'such an illiterate slob wold never know the words' and 'I will not demean myself to write as low as that, knowing to what leve I can write'. How's that for total arrogance?

9:19 pm

MollyL

That

9:19 pm

Nef

since that point on; I've always learned that it's important to speak at the level of the person you're talking to. My Dad used to use a whole lot of big words; then when he was 75 years old he got his GED from high school!

9:20 pm

MollyL

That's what I was trying to say Nef. You have to speak/write to people on a level that they will understand. Jac...no problem. I didn't think you were calling me arrogant.

9:21 pm

uusue2

Hi, all, at the dance but they are still setting up. Browsing on my phone :-)

9:21 pm

Jacula

Nef - that's something I've known all of my life.

9:21 pm

Nef

Aww, modern technology is so cool these days! :-)

9:22 pm

LeslieAnn

sue, what dance?

9:22 pm

Good Enough

leslie have you been to Hawthorns backyard in west chicago?

9:22 pm

uusue2

Nice browser except no scroll bars on the word list or chog.

9:22 pm

Nef

Jac, we are all guilty of talking over the heads of others because we make assumptions about another persons' intelligence

9:23 pm

LeslieAnn

i have not, GE.

9:23 pm

uusue2

Leslie, it's the student group I advise, they are having their last dance of the semester.

9:23 pm

Nef

take this site, for instance: because we are here; we *all* assume that we can read and spell.

9:24 pm

Good Enough

hmm my friends band is playing there tomorrow night and i didn't know if my 16 year old could come bc its a restaurant or if it is more of a bar

9:24 pm

LeslieAnn

fun.

9:24 pm

MollyL

Nef, Jaq...thanks for the good conversation about words and how we use them. We all do it in our own way, and what is important is that's how it works for us. Sue...get out there and dance woman! I'm off to watch a movie. Night all.

9:25 pm

uusue2

GE, I am not far from West Chicago either but not familiar with the place.

9:25 pm

Jacula

I am calling Martin Amies arrogant, though! Also Sebastian Foulks, who made that programme about heroes in novels. He ended by saying that the last literary hero was Jim Dixon, from father of Martin, Kinglsey Amis' novel, 'Lucky Jim'. He then concluded, like it was FACT, that there would never ever be another literary hero. As far as he is concerned, the only hero in a book around now is in a children's book and that hero is Harry Potter. I won't tell you what I shouted at the TV because it's not fit for a family site.

9:25 pm

BabbleRabble

I like to use words like "rannygazoo" just because I can and I think it is fun. People can think what they will. I do a lot of stuff tongue in cheak.

9:25 pm

Nef

night Molly

9:26 pm

uusue2

Forgot my ear plugs...

9:26 pm

Nef

hi BR. How are you?

9:27 pm

lbdawger

Nothing is more conducive to long winded and stilted speech then the use of pedantic and polysyllabic substitutes for a natural expression.

9:27 pm

Good Enough

i don't know if we will make it or not as the boys (DH and son) are going to the cubs game tomorrow

9:27 pm

BabbleRabble

Hello, Nef. Doing okay

9:27 pm

Good Enough

band or dj sue?

9:27 pm

Nef

oh-oh uusue. Fingers get tired after a while and kleenex won't help!

9:27 pm

uusue2

Exactly, lbd!

9:27 pm

LeslieAnn

indeed, lb.

9:27 pm

lbdawger

hey BR. how's the weather in your part of the woods?

9:27 pm

BabbleRabble

Then I am guilty but do not feel guilty

9:28 pm

LeslieAnn

DJ Sue! Spinning vinyl for the students.

9:28 pm

uusue2

DJ

9:28 pm

Nef

hi lbd! You hit the nail on the head there! :-D

9:28 pm

Leaf

I know where Hawthorn's is but not sure if kids can go in there either :(

9:28 pm

LeslieAnn

where are you, leaf?

9:29 pm

Leaf

Wheaton

9:29 pm

uusue2

Ha, I am not the dj and I think it's more electronic than vinyl.

9:29 pm

lbdawger

I memorized that saying when I was in the 4th grade. tried to live by it as much as possible. doesn't mean I don't get verbal diarrea tho.

9:29 pm

Leaf

near Cosely Zoo

9:29 pm

Good Enough

thanks leaf! i'll give a call over there

9:29 pm

LeslieAnn

cool. very IL-centric chat today. I'm in Aurora, Sue is in Dekalb, and GE is from somewhere northwestish... Buffalo Grove? Arlington Heights?

9:29 pm

Good Enough

i love cosley zoo although its been yrs since ive been there

9:30 pm

Leaf

:D

9:30 pm

Leaf

oh I like DeKalb :)

9:30 pm

Leaf

u know how to get to Hawthorn's ?

9:30 pm

uusue2

Me too, leaf :-)

9:30 pm

Leaf

it is really nice @ cosley

9:30 pm

Jacula

Literary writers think they are 'above' the rest of we writers. When Joanna Trollope. granddaughter of Anthony, got a bit countrified, they dismissed her stories as a new genre, 'aga sagas'.

9:30 pm

Leaf

lol sue

9:30 pm

lbdawger

BR what are you guilty for?

9:31 pm

Leaf

I like Klien Creek farm too :)

9:31 pm

Good Enough

i googled it and i grew up in lombard so kind of familiar with the area

9:32 pm

Jacula

I think the literary writers, a small clique who don't sell many novels normally, are just a bit jealous of JKR and her success.

9:32 pm

Leaf

59 to Hawthorne... west to the bar about 2 miles

9:33 pm

Leaf

north of Geneva rd ...(Washington)

9:33 pm

Good Enough

thats easy. could even stop by family on the way

9:33 pm

Leaf

:)

9:36 pm

Jacula

I don't see why you can't work it both ways as a writer - you can use big words, or your knowledge of Latin etc., to make up new words. You can use your knowledge of history to make fun of history. People who choose to read books are not so stupid that they won't see what you're getting at with your simpler way of saying it. If they are that interested, they will look it up anyway.

9:36 pm

joey

hi. I pulled up lickety and it is Thurs's. is it not up?

9:37 pm

Uneaixoise

clues in my profile, joey

9:37 pm

Jacula

I can see that I'm talking to an audience long gone. See you all next grid. In the meantiime, Happy Babbling.

9:38 pm

joey

thanks, une

9:38 pm

Uneaixoise

yw :-)

9:38 pm

LeslieAnn

bye jac. hello unea

9:38 pm

Leaf

joey I just left Fort worth on Wednesday :(

9:38 pm

Uneaixoise

hey, leslieann ;-)

9:40 pm

Uneaixoise

pups demanding to go out -- back in a mo :-)

9:40 pm

uusue2

Ok, it is getting loud here and they are still decorating.

9:41 pm

Good Enough

oh laptop dying bblbattery

9:41 pm

joey

wow, leaf, what were you doing here?

9:41 pm

Leaf

visiting friends and family :)

9:41 pm

Leaf

was cold there Tuesday :)

9:42 pm

Leaf

went to the stockyards on tuesday and almost froze LOL as if Chicago is sooooooo warm LOL

9:42 pm

joey

it was beautiful today. Last Saturday I had my AC on, and Tuesday night the heat kicked on, so I know what you are saying

9:42 pm

Leaf

lol yeah .... my friend had her heat on as well

9:43 pm

Leaf

last week when I arrived the weather was perfect

9:43 pm

joey

if you come back, let me know - we could meet up.

9:44 pm

Leaf

:) great

9:44 pm

Leaf

I got such a great airfare.... RT non stop from Ohare to DFW for $ 69 total

9:45 pm

joey

omg, who do you know? that is awesome

9:45 pm

Leaf

lol no one I just clicked on flexible dates @ United.com

9:45 pm

Leaf

lol

9:45 pm

joey

that is awesome. good for you

9:46 pm

uusue2

Wow, leaf, that is amazing!

9:46 pm

Leaf

I had to call them and ask if I was flying in cargo LOL

9:46 pm

joey

that is the funniest

9:46 pm

Leaf

I know sue ... my kids were freaking out LOL

9:47 pm

Leaf

the plane was 1/2 hr early arriving in Chicago too ....... so less that 2 hrs :O